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

[Parish, James]

Possibly related to the phrase "now we're cooking!". (That was Katharine 
Hepburn's catch-phrase in "West Side Waltz", which I saw not long before 
her death.)

Jim Parish

On 1/10/2020 2:39 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> 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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> -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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