modern proverbs

[Wilson Gray]

A large number of proverbs from BE that I was going to suggest are
already in the ADS-L archives, much to my surprise. But I didn't see
this one:

"Get a lot of ass, but don't take no shit."

The non-BE "The world is full of assholes" gets over 2,000 Google
hits. I can add only that I first heard it in 1960, used as a
catch-phrase by an Army buddy, "Booth" Turkington.

T[^]rkington-T[a]rkington like cl[^]rk-cl[a]rk? An Australian friend
liked to describe women that she considered to be overdressed as
"Tah-tid up like a pahks-dahktuh's clahk."

-Wilson

On 6/7/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 2005 Brian L. Goff _From the Ballfield to the Boardroom_ (Westport, Conn.: Praeger/Greenwood) 140: Former University of Texas football coach Darryl Royal was fond of the expression, "You gotta dance with the one that brung ya." He usually meant that his team had to stick to a particular strategy that had been successful in the past regardless of the game situation or moves by the opponent.
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>   The saying is featured prominently in the film _Fighting Seabees_ (1944) with John Wayne and Susan Hayward.
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>   Hundreds of Googlits.
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