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'For "Kibosh": More Evidence A Whip Can Be "Put On".', Pascal Tréguer
'For "Kibosh": More Evidence A Whip Can Be "Put On".', Pascal Tréguer
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'The Big Apple’ -- Ny Daily News T-Shirts (1975) Helped Spread The Nickname Revived By Public Relations Man Charles Gillett, Barry Popik, Gerald Leonard Cohen
'The Big Apple’ -- Ny Daily News T-Shirts (1975) Helped Spread The Nickname Revived By Public Relations Man Charles Gillett, Barry Popik, Gerald Leonard Cohen
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Spanish Food Duelos Y Quebrantos ‘Sorrows And Breakings’ In Light Of Hot Dog, Gerald Leonard Cohen
Spanish Food Duelos Y Quebrantos ‘Sorrows And Breakings’ In Light Of Hot Dog, Gerald Leonard Cohen
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Comments On Etymology, May 2019: Kibosh Update #4 (Compilation), Gerald Leonard Cohen, Stephen Goranson, Matthew Little
Comments On Etymology, May 2019: Kibosh Update #4 (Compilation), Gerald Leonard Cohen, Stephen Goranson, Matthew Little
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It has been ten years since Matthew Little sent me his suggestion that ‘kibosh’ in ‘put the kibosh on’ derives from the fearsome Mideastern whip known as the kurbash; Stephen Goranson soon thereafter independently made the same suggestion in messages to the American Dialect Society, gradually adding the important initial discoveries to buttress that proposal.
The three of us wound up collaborating on ‘kibosh,’ first in Comments on Etymology and then in our 2017 book Origin of Kibosh. Updates continued to appear in COE as various scholars weighed in and some new material appeared. It is time now to …