[Ads-l] "Sandwich =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A0_?=la Colette"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sun Aug 9 14:16:32 UTC 2015


And knowing Colette, it was a sandwich on wry.

LH

> On Aug 8, 2015, at 11:51 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Sex Rebel: Black, by "Bob Greene"
> Greenleaf Classics, Inc., San Diego, California. c1968.
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.scribd.com_..._Sex-2DRebel-2DBlack-2DMemoirs-2Dof-2Da-2DGash-2DGourme&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=mTo_Mg-i7Ok-KjGPUbIwe6MlSC-9fGbXWke3_221s7g&s=blwH8q30U_RvPWhRdgsDK0cpeyBurF8kiyJBqOPNcjU&e= ...
> Nov 12, 2009 - ... she became a _sandwich a la Colette_. Then the three of
> us rested..."
> 
> The only other hit refers to a literal sandwich. The only place that I've
> seen this phrase, elsewhere, it was used as the caption of a photo of the
> "sandwich," in a paperback that I was browsing through, in a Los Angeles
> dirty-book store, ca. 1965.
> 
> -- 
> -Wilson
> -----
> 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
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.americandialect.org&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=mTo_Mg-i7Ok-KjGPUbIwe6MlSC-9fGbXWke3_221s7g&s=UYlwv0Umr3u3KyUCTgdu2Hd5sIskPwC03V6AaDJjlhk&e= 

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list