"basket weaving" revisited

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 5/24/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> What's the earliest cite for "underwater basket weaving" (as opposed
> to just "basket weaving") anyone has referring to a "gut" course?

I believe 1954 is currently the antedating to beat. (See the cite from
Robin Winks' _These New Zealanders_ upthread.)


--Ben Zimmer

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