Sir John Straw-jacket, or Strawberry?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Presumably as an honorific personification. Cf. "(Sir) John Barleycorn."

JL



"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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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
> >

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