Briggs; Hughes; SF; Hot dogs, et al. (LONG!!)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>      Jay Leno uses this a lot.  It's rare, but a person's last name alone can
> be the slang phrase.  "Hey, nice going, EINSTEIN!"
>      I've never seen it recorded.
>      The AMERICAN MACHINIST, 3 December 1956, pg. 109, advertisement for
> Tomkins-Johnson reamers:
>
>      _Now they call Joe a genius_*
>      *He's no Einstein--but he figured how to cut costs...

The OED Additions Series, volume 2, records this and quotes Ogden Nash,
_Good Intentions_ (1942) for "he's no Einstein."


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