"school" phrases (formerly "kippie")

[Charles Doyle]

Are others familiar with a ritual exclamation of an individual upon his triumphing in a card game like rummy: "School's out"?  My parents followed that custom in the 1950s; however, they were teachers, so maybe they invented the practice.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:14:05 -0500
>From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
>Subject: Re: "kippie" - Buster Keaton
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

>>>"It got so that I didn't care if school kept or not."
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>>This is an old expression (from 1855 at a glance at N'archive): "not care whether school keeps or not" means "not care about anything at all".
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>Here's a little earlier, 1848, from N'archive (which doesn't always return the same items for the same inquiry):
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>_Independent American and General Advertiser_, Platteville WI, 16 Dec.
>1848: p. "9":
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><<"I don't care a darn whether school keeps or not," said a vulger [sic] school boy. Whereupon his more refined companion rebuked him, and rendered the sentence thus: "It behooveth me not the value of an anathema, whether the pedagogue presideth at the temple of erudition or not!">>
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>... suggesting (to me anyway) that the phrase in question was already standard at that time.
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>-- Doug Wilson
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