Grab-handle or Strap in Car, etc.

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Mark.  That's a new one.

The first of these that I encountered was "shit handle," in 2000.  My source, an emeritus professor, assured me he had heard it during WWII.

I have no confirmatory evidence that any of these terms was in use so early as that, but as Dayton Allen used to say, "WHHHHHHYYYYY NOT?"

JL

"Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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For me, occasionally and once upon a time, the "oh-my-God bar". But I can't
remember where I heard it.

-- Mark A. Mandel
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