"All dressed up and no place to go" (1913)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> The American Heritage Dictionary of Quotations has "All dressed up with
> nowhere to go" from William Allen White, 1916. Meatloaf sang that lyric
> as well, in the 1970s.
>
> PERCY HAMMOND. Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Oct 21,
> 1913. p. 10 (1 page): "All Dressed Up and No Place to Go" is the title
> of Raymond Hitchock's comic lamentation this season in "The Beauty Shop"

This goes back to 1912 in my files.

Fred Shapiro


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