[PW] Re: ?Phrase--More Than the Sidewalk

[Suzanne Guinn]

...till butterflies; milkshakes...

Suzanne Guinn, director
Hilda Kroeker Library
Kansas City, MO 

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Shari Haber
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 6:50 PM
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Subject: [PW] Re: ?Phrase--More Than the Sidewalk

FWIW, this reminds me of something somebody would have written in an 
autograph book many decades ago: Yours until sidewalks.  (You might have 
heard a similar sentiment, "Yours until Niagra Falls.)

Shari Haber
MCLS Reference Center
shaber at mcls.org

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From: "Mccown, Douglas" <douglas.mccown at co.fulton.ga.us>
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Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 3:42 PM
Subject: [PW] ?Phrase--More Than the Sidewalk


> Has anyone ever heard of the phrase "More than the sidewalk" used as 
> way
> of expressing intensity, as in "I love you more than the sidewalk"? 
> No
> one here has heard it, and a healthy sampling of 420s did not turn up
> any reference to it.  We were not able to check vols. 3-4 of 
> Dictionary
> of American Regional English, as these are missing....   -DMc.
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> Douglas McCown
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> Atlanta-Fulton Public Library
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