[Ads-l] Anachronism

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Drinking *her* Kool-Aid" sounds weird to me anyway.

(So does, heh heh, "enamored by.")

JL

On Tue, Nov 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> My wife and I are sitting here watching the TV adaptation of Tony
> Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn mysteries, "Dark Winds".  In an episode set in
> 1972, one character says, in reference to a man being enamored by a female
> police officer, that he was "drinking her Kool Aid".   It got by me, but
> the wife said ""They wouldn't have said that then, would they?"
>
> Jim Jones was 1978, and the OED's first figurative cite is 1981.
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