"Guys and Dolls"

[Jonathan Lighter]

It's had little influence that I'm aware of.

JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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I am including book titles in my quotation dictionary when they have
"entered the language." I am trying to decide whether to include Damon
Runyon's title "Guys and Dolls." The OED cites this as one of their
quotations under "guy," but that may or may not mean much. Does anyone
have a sense of how linguistically or phraseologically influential
Runyon's title was?

Fred Shapiro


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Access and Lecturer in Legal Research Yale University Press,
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