Antedatings of "everything but the kitchen sink [or stove]"

hw gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 22 17:03:37 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:

> the last cry


I've never seen

_le dernier cri_

translated, before. Clearly, it works better when left in the original
French. :-)

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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