Re: Frogs
Posted by ESC on March 27, 2003 In Reply to: Re:
Why . . . posted by R. Berg on March 27, 2003
: : Just wondering.
Apperently 'cheese-eating surrender monkey' is from the Simpsons.
: Dict. of
Amer. Slang says "Probably from 'frog-eater.'" I'm guessing that alliteration
helped.
FROG - "a Frenchman, was common in England by 1870 but became well known
in the U.S. only during World War I. It is probably from the French relishing
frogs as a delicacy, reinforced by the toads on the coat of arms of the city of
Paris." From "I Hear America Talking" by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold
Co., New York, 1976).
- Re: Frogs - the truth. TheFallen
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