stir-fry crazy

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/4/2011 08:37 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "stir-crazy,"
>
>Very likely, the polloi are no longer familiar with the phrase,
>
>"in stir"
>
>meaning
>
>"in jail, in prison,"
>
>a situation that might render a person who wasn't a sociopath non
>compos mentis. I guess the feeling is that, if a mere stir makes you
>crazy, one can only imagine what a stir-"fry* would do!

Not to mention "fry" = "execute in the electric chair".  Someone on
death row might well be stir-fry crazy.

Joel

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