[Ads-l] To Bed without Dinner

[Baker, John]

It’s “going without a dinner” in chapter one of Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

Wilson’s example does not involve a punishment, but it isn’t hard to find additional 19th century examples, some of which predate Lewis Carroll.


John Baker


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"Without your supper" is what I remember from the early '50s.

Regional.

JL

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 11:18 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "When _a child_ acted up around dinnertime in the 60s, _his_ mother might
> threaten _them_ by saying, you can go to be bed without dinner. And, _they_
> might actually go to bed without dinner.
> "This phrase dates back to the popular children's book, Where the Wild
> Things Are (1963) and was an effort to teach the child not to misbehave or
> else they'd go hungry."
>
> https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/words-phrases-parents-used-cant-use-now/#go-outside-and-play<https://www.dictionary.com/e/s/words-phrases-parents-used-cant-use-now/#go-outside-and-play>
>
> Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art, and Fashion
> https://books.google.com/books?id=uFIyAQAAMAAJ<https://books.google.com/books?id=uFIyAQAAMAAJ>
> George R. Graham, ‎Edgar Allan Poe - 1835 - ‎Read - Page 30
> LIFE—-—NOT LIKE THE ROSE-—GOING TO BED WITHOUT DINNER.
>
> I'd been under the impression that Dictionart.com<http://Dictionart.com> was a class act.
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