"rush the growler"

[Michael Quinion]

> In his latest "World Wide Words" item, Michael Quinion treats "rush the
> growler" and says no one knows where it comes from.  I refer him to the
> article which Barry Popik and I wrote on the subject: "_Rush the
> growler_: towards a compilation of treatments on this expression." in:
> _Studies in Slang_,  VI,  (by Gerald Leonard Cohen and Barry A. Popik),
> Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999, pp. 1-20.

Many thanks for the reference. Where does it come from?

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