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Show Street Sayings Are Short Lived. If some I-ondnn slang has a Khort life, the street sayings current for a time pass away even more quickly. Moat of these, such, aa "Has your mother aold her mangle?" "Who shot the dog?" and "How are you off for soap?" survive only In the pagea of contemporary novt lint a. Some, however, have a long life. "Does your mother know you're out?" ha been traced back to 1840 and may possibly have been current before then: Others are revived, with slight alterations. Ten years ago rude little boya would shout, "Where did you get thnt hat?" when their grandfathers grand-fathers would exclaim, "What! the same old hat!" And the expression of dissent emphasized nowadays by 'Not In these trousers!" used to be conveyed thirty yenrs ngo by the tug. "Not in theae boots!" Loudon Chronicle. |