"rush the growler"

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

I'm not sure if the reference is listed anywhere.  But since Barry and I wrote the article, I'm obviously familiar with it.

Gerald Cohen

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        > 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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