[Ads-l] New to me: "alive and _cooking_"

[Laurence Horn]

Yes, I imagine “alive and cooking” represents a later stage than “alive and kicking”.   Or maybe, as with the frog in the kettle, it should be “alive but cooking”.  



> On Jan 10, 2020, at 3:39 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> But, apparently, it's been around a while.
> 
> Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the ...
> https://books.google.com › books
> United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate Covert
> Arms Transactions with Iran - 1987
> FOUND INSIDE - PAGE 92
> ... and it was alive and _cooking_, whether anybody liked it or 19 not ...
> 
> I'd thought that the cliché was only "alive and _kicking_."
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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.
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