saucering tea

[Garson O'Toole]

Michael, Thanks for pointing to the excellent article about the phrase
"saucered and blowed". Here is an interesting cite with the phrase
that is a little earlier in 1935, and a cite in 1920 for "saucered and
blew".

Cite: 1935 April 8, Big Spring Daily Herald, Under the Dome at Austin
by Gordon Shearer Page 5, Column 7, Big Spring, Texas.
(NewspaperArchive)

The house decision to end the
regular session on May 7 failed of
senate agreement When a motion
was made in the house to reconsid-
er, it was tabled. Just to show
how final the action was, Speaker
Coke Stevenson thus announced the
resulting vote:

"Eighty-three ayes and 48 noes.
The resolution is reconsidered, ta-
bled, saucered and blowed."

A cup of coffee, in forks of the
creek language, is ready for drink-
ing when it is "saucered and blow-
ed." The senate postponed action
on the resolution until May 1.

Cite: 1920 November, The Lyceum magazine, The Spotlight by Ralph
Bingham, Page 24, Chicago. (HathiTrust)

Lamped One the Other Day

"Plum" Plumstead inquires by mail: "What's become of the o. f. man who
saucered and blew his Java?"

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015079986561

Garson

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Michael Quinion
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