derry-do

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not "Derrida":

2003 [http://www.vdare.com/pb/derrydo.htm] (Sept. 25): Derry-do on the
frontier.

2007 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053108/usercomments?start=10] (Sept. 7):
The plot, apparently based on some real life derry-do, is nonetheless
implausible, jocularity trumping rank structure and cultural norms.

The 2003 ex. puportedly appeared in the Times (London) in 1986.

JL


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