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Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "fattening frogs for snakes"?[subject line changed -- dw]

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OED apparently has earlier precedents than the song title, which dates only to 1932 per:gooja"Fattening Frogs For Snakes" was first recorded by one Carrie Edwards in 1932, and later covered by the...

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OED apparently has earlier precedents than the song title, which dates only to 1932It does? Searching the online OED2 for the phrase "frogs for snakes" turns up only an incidental 1949 reference to a...

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The gooja post was the only one in its thread, posted by Bill Donoghue (guru@donoghue.com) who asserted that there were earlier precedents than 1932 for the phrase in question -- wish he'd been more...

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