stick a fork in - - I'm done

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> Can't find the note at the moment, but the expression appears in a 1945
> photo of aircraft workers who've covered with names and witticisms the
> fuselage of the final B-24 (?) airplane to be completed.

The breathtakingly informative Yale Book of Quotations has the following:

You can stick a fork in him folks -- he's done.
        Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, Quoted in _Berkshire Evening Eagle_
(Pittsfield, Mass.), 25 Ju;y 1944

Fred Shapiro


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