lobby / lobbyist
Apropos of Dave's new entry on the Big List, I heard Jessie Sheidlower this morning on NPR debunking the myth of President U.S. Grant coining the phrase "lobbyist". Sheidlower had some specific U.S....
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Dave's new entry on the Big ListSay Dave, when I go to the L's I can see the entry, but on the main page's alphabetical index there's no link to it: nothing between "Life of Riley" and "Lock and load".
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>Sheidlower seemed to say that the verb form had been in use in the House of Commons -- I seem to recall that he referred to a date as early as 1640.The first verb usage of "lobby" that I see in...
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It's there on the Big List. You may be reading the page from cache and need to refresh the page.
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Apparently that was the case. I see you've also adopted my position (and citation) on "over a barrel".
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Yup. Always ready to be convinced by evidence. Thanks for the citation--and there were a lot more in American Memory that reinforced the flogging origin. I just didn't include them all.
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