[Ads-l] from hell to breakfast

[Jonathan Lighter]

Newspapers.com:

1865 _Daily Pantagraph_ (Bloomington, Ill.) (March  31) 1: Or they would
blow us from hell to breakfast with a nine pound Napoleon.

1865 _N.Y. Times_ (June 18) 2: You d---d Yanks...I will blow you all from
hell to breakfast.

1868 _S.F. Chronicle_ (Nov. 3) 3: He would indorse Canavan "from alpha to
omega, from hell to breakfast."

Etc., etc.
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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