Date:  Tue, 18 Oct 1994 13:04:47 CDT

From:  Randy Roberts <robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EXT.MISSOURI.EDU>

Subject: offending idioms



   I recall that folklorist Archie Green, in a paper on Labor Lingo,

   reported the terms Irish buggy and African diesel were being used on

   construction sites to refer to a wheelbarrow. William Safire, in a

   column from August 1980, discussed occupational slurs. I think he

   used the term occuslurs.



   Re: "more bang for the buck" If anyone is interested I can provide

   information from the Peter Tamony collection that relates to the

   sexual connotations of the term bang and as it relates to drug usage.

   Tamony collected info from the works of Eric Partridge, David Mauer

   and others for bang as a sexual term. He also found examples from the

   writings of James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac and others.



   Randy Roberts

   University of Missouri-Columbia

   robertsr[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ext.missouri.edu