fuggedaboudit, frog and toe

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:00 PM -0400 8/24/02, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>    This continues a re-examination of New York terms using NEW YORK
>TIMES full text searching.
>
>FORGETABOUTIT
>    I couldn't find it pre-1986!

even as "fuggedaboudit"?

>FROG AND TOE
>    This was an old nickname for New York City.  It means "cops and
>robbers."  Not in the database.
>
Hmm.  No relation to William Steig's characters of almost the same
name?  Not a reduction of "Frog and Toad", in other words?  (I can't
imagine what the connection with cops and robbers would be, but
that's true for "Frog and Toe" as well.

L