[PW] Re: ?Phrase--More Than the Sidewalk
Dennis Lien
Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu
Tue Jun 27 09:44:34 PDT 2006
At 05:42 PM 6/26/2006, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
>Douglas McCown
I don't find it in DARE (nor have I heard of it before).
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu
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