When You're Hot, You're Hot
Douglas G. Wilson
douglas at NB.NET
Wed Nov 1 04:08:21 UTC 2006
>The Yale Book of Quotations cites newspaper reports from 1972 and 1971 for
>"When you're hot, you're hot" and "When you're hot, you're hot, and when
>you're not, you're not," both described as "Modern Proverbs." I expect
>that they both derive from the popular 1971 song by Jerry Reed (aka Jerry
>Reed Hubbard), titled the former and including the latter in its
>lyrics. I don't know if he also wrote the lyrics or not.
This was one of Flip Wilson's (Geraldine's?) sayings around the same time,
wasn't it? Did this precede the song? Either way I suppose the saying was
used by gamblers earlier.
-- Doug Wilson
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