In today’s crop of cartoons, an outrageous Pearls Before Swine and a silly Mother Goose and Grimm, both of them meta-strips and both playing with idioms:
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In #1, the characters are treating pieces of wood to psychological pressure, which moves Rat to bash the cartoonist with one of the pieces of wood.
From OED3 (March 2007):
pressure-treated: Of timber: impregnated with a preservative applied under pressure.
[first cite] 1928 Iowa Recorder 12 Sept. 5/2, $5 buys a twelve foot pressure treated hog trough that will last you a ‘lifetime’.
In #2, we have the cartoon character Charlie Brown (visiting from another comic strip) on the couch of a psychiatrist who’s reassuring the boy about good grief. Charlie Brown is famous for using the (American) exclamatory idiom Good grief!
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From the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms (2003) on good grief:
I am very surprised “I have four computers at home” “Good grief. What do you do with them all?”
Usage notes: often used humorously, when someone pretends that a situation is more serious than it really is: Good grief, look at all this food! Are you feeding an army?
July 11, 2013 at 9:23 am |
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