"Village Idiot" (1907?) and "Texas Village Idiot" (1997?)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> "Village idiot" is not in the Yale Book of Quotations. It's attributed to
> Shaw's MAJOR BARBARA (1907), but NewspaperArchive shows earlier citations.

Is "village idiot" a quotation?

Fred Shapiro


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