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[Laurence Horn]

At 2:08 AM -0400 9/28/04, Wilson Gray wrote:
>"Nine out of ten doctors say, 'Eat Meraw!'" punning on commercials for
>patent medicines of the day, was a popular catch-phrase at my all-male
>prep school, ca.1950-1954. And what about "bite (a big one)"? As in the
>movie title, "Reality bites." Back in the day - early '50's - if a
>person was the subject, you had to say, "John bites a big one," in
>which "one" was understood to reference "penis."

I've always heard this with the definite:  "bites the big one".
Checking google, I find I'm not alone:  "bites the big one" whips
"bites a big one" 2930 to 190.

larry