Idly wondering: "If it's not one thing, it's two things."

[Charles C Doyle]

Psychoanalytic variant:  "If it's not one thing, then you're in denial."

--Charlie
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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Laurence Horn [laurence.horn at YALE.EDU]
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 9:23 PM
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On Sep 30, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> This is the canonical BE version of
>
> "If it's not one thing, it's another."
>
> Is it also used by white people?
>
I haven't heard that one.  There is, however, the Freudian version: "If it's not one thing, it's your mother."

LH

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