End of the rainbow--LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off the tour

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 6, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Marc Velasco wrote:

> as in 'somewhere over the rainbow"?

the proverb "there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" is the
more likely source, i'd think.  these intrusions from one fixed
expression into another don't have to make a lot of sense (the
contributing expressions are often learned as wholes, without a lot of
attention to their literal semantics or the reasons why they might
have come to be used as they are), and it's probably a mistake to
spend a lot of time trying to rationalize them.

arnold

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org