The term cheap-john can refer to a miserly fellow, and also to a pawnbroker’s shop. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “The Judge Wants To Spit”
You remember when we were talking about that expression, order in the court, the monkey wants to speak? That thing that parents would use to make their kids be quiet?
We heard from Deanna Smith-Willis, who lives in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She learned one from her grandfather in the 1940s. He was chief justice of the Court of Civil Appeals in San Antonio, Texas. And she says, my grandmother was horrified when she heard him teaching me, order in the court. The judge wants to spit. All who can’t swim better get. That would clear a room, wouldn’t it?
I wonder if he actually said it from the bench. Do you think he did? I don’t know. We can look at the records. You never know. Some people.
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