Query: "gone to Hobbes"

[Scot LaFaive]

After searching Google, Google Groups, and Google Books, I don't find any uses of this expression in any inflected form. Sorry.
 
Scot



> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:54:52 -0500> From: gcohen at UMR.EDU> Subject: Query: "gone to Hobbes"> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------> Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>> Poster: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>> Subject: Query: "gone to Hobbes"> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------> > Today I was told that a 90 year old lady had matter-of-factly said that the crops this year "have just gone to Hobbes" (roughly = simply went to hell in a handbasket). The younger lady to whom she said this then asked her about the expression, and the older lady answered that her mother had often used it.> > I don't have OED or DARE handy, but I see the expression doesn't appear in the ads-l archives or HDAS. Is anyone here familiar with it and would anyone have any idea who Hobbes in the expression is?> > Gerald Cohen> South-Central Missouri> > ------------------------------------------------------------> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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