Antedating of "frog strangler" (1922)

Tue Sep 23 01:57:30 UTC 2008

OED doesn't have.  ADHS has 1942.

_The Ada(OK) Weekly News_  19 October 1922.  pg. 3/col. 3

"We had a nice little sprinkle Sun. night, but we really need a frog strangler to put out stock water."

Sam Clements

You almost knew this wasn't gonna show up in a newspaper from Vermont or Maine.  :)

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