[Ads-l] _broker than the Ten Commandments_

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:43 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Year: 2000
> Book: The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms
> Author: Robert Hendrickson
> Publisher: Facts on File, New York
> Page 606
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> broker than the Ten Commandments A phrase common in the 1930s.
> "'Listen, bud, I'm flat broke. I'm broker'n the Ten Commandments.'"
> (Henry Roth, From Bondage, 1996)
> [End excerpt]
>

I saw that. But I was deterred from using it by "1996."


-- 
-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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