Read 'em and weep (1920)

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Apr 8 15:46:53 UTC 2004


At 12:34 AM -0400 4/8/04, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>READ 'EM AND WEEP
>
>    This is still not in OED?  Supposedly, this one's from cards.  David
>Shulman told me that he submitted this to OED, but I forget the
>date.  It might
>have been 1918.
>    Nothing on Newspaperarchive is before 1920.
>
It's certainly (still?) used a lot in poker, after the cards are
dealt out on the draw.

Larry



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