Date:  Tue, 18 Oct 1994 08:25:00 EDT

From:  "James_C.Stalker" <STALKER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSU.EDU>

Subject: Re: offending idioms



Robert Chapman, <New Dictionary of American Slang> gives this etymology for

"bang for the buck": fr a frivolous way of referring to the national defense

budget and the destructive power it produces. (p. 16). He does not provide

evidencefor his etymology, but the contextsin which it seems to occur most

frequently would support him.