Re: Frogs
- the truth.
Posted by TheFallen on March 28,
2003 In Reply to: Re: Frogs posted by
ESC 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).
The French
are called "frogs", at least by us in England, because we're too well-mannered
to say what we *really* think.
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