Fight like a man

[Joel S. Berson]

Perhaps not a desired instance?  ("men", not "a man")

Pennsylvania Gazette, 27 October 1757, p. 3, col. 1 [Early American
Newspapers].

and the Indians finding their Endeavors to force the Door were in
vain, called to the young Fellows in English, to come out and fight
like Men, and not stay in the House to be murdered.

So the origin is from the Iroquois?  :-)

Or you can have "fight like lions" from 1736, "fight like devils"
from 1745, fight like Britons from 1758, ... .

Joel

At 10/7/2007 12:59 PM, Scot LaFAive wrote:
>I was curious about "Fight like a man" (not sure if anyone has done
>work on it) and found a cite from 1750 (assuming Google Books is
>right). This was just a preliminary search, but it's interesting
>that it could go back that far.
>http://books.google.com/books?id=cWskAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA164&dq=%22fight+like+a+man%22
>
>Scot
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