Sir John Straw-jacket, or Strawberry?

[Joel S. Berson]

But why "Sir John"?

At 6/6/2005 12:35 PM, you wrote:
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>  Possible shipping bottles in "straw jackets" to prevent breakage?
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> > The expression "Been too free with Sir John Strawberry" is in Franklin's
> > "Drinkers Dictionary".
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> > I have come across the expression as "Been free with Sir John
> > Straw-Jacket".  How might this -- or Franklin's version -- have arisen?
> >
> > What might "straw-jacket" mean?  (I do not find it Googling, but I do not
> > have access to the databases others on this list seem to use.)  Could it
> > have been a New England regionalism for "strawberry"?
> >
> > Joel
> >