From sentto-2242572-53767-1031270245-zzzz=example.com@returns.groups.yahoo.com Fri Sep 6 11:48:49 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3696216F92 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:41:50 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:41:50 +0100 (IST) Received: from webnote.net (mail.webnote.net [193.120.211.219]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g869pnC29052 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:51:49 +0100 Received: from n4.grp.scd.yahoo.com (n4.grp.scd.yahoo.com [66.218.66.88]) by webnote.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA19348 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:57:57 +0100 X-Egroups-Return: sentto-2242572-53767-1031270245-zzzz=example.com@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.197] by n4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Sep 2002 23:57:26 -0000 X-Sender: wt046@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca X-Apparently-To: zzzzteana@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_1_0_1); 5 Sep 2002 23:57:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 44694 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2002 23:57:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 5 Sep 2002 23:57:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vtn1.victoria.tc.ca) (199.60.222.3) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Sep 2002 23:57:24 -0000 Received: from vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (wt046@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g85NvNPL001355 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wt046@localhost) by vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g85NvNIO001354; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:57:23 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: wt046@vtn1 To: "zzzzteana@egroups" Message-Id: From: Brian Chapman X-Yahoo-Profile: mf8r31p MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com; contact forteana-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:57:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [zzzzteana] Frog Fall at Cheapside Reply-To: zzzzteana@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Near the end of his *Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds* (1851), Charles Mackay discusses various catch phrases briefly popular in mid-19th-century London. One of them, he observes, "like a mushroom, seems to have sprung up in the night, or, like a frog in Cheapside, to have come down in a sudden shower. One day it was unheard, unknown, uninvented; the next it pervaded London." Was "like a frog in Cheapside" (or something similar) a catch phrase itself, or did Mackay come up with the simile on his own? And to what event or events does it refer? I didn't find anything relevant in Partridge's *A Dictionary of Catch Phrases.* bc ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Looking for a more powerful website? Try GeoCities for $8.95 per month. Register your domain name (http://your-name.com). More storage! No ads! http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info http://us.click.yahoo.com/aHOo4D/KJoEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: forteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/