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Familiar Quotations

Pancakes

The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday morning.–Anonymous

OK, we'll go get some fucking pancakes and then get laid.–Fargo

We have pancakes on Tuesdays.–Rain Man

Use in Literature

Pancakes

A great pancake formed of cow dung lay nearby.–Sherwood Anderson in Windy McPherson's Son.

The French, crushed as flat as a pancake, held up their heads again.–Honoré de Balzac in The Country Doctor.

Pancake, they call it.–H. Barber in The Aeroplane Speaks.

One flop of his huge tail could smash a hundred nomes to pancakes, and with teeth and claws he could tear even you or me into small bits, so that it would be almost impossible to put us together again.–L. Frank Baum in Tik-Tok of Oz.

When it comes to being pounded upon the head by an iron hammer, and smashed into pancakes, we naturally object.–L. Frank Baum in Ozma of Oz.

When I had heard all this from her, a mere chit of a girl as she was, unfit to make a snowball even, or to fry snow pancakes, I looked down on her with amazement, and began to wish a little that I had given more time to books.–R.D. Blackmore in Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor.

All this was crowned with a mountain of exquisitely cooked rice and another mountain of chapatis, which are something like brown pancakes.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

This impromptu dish gave general satisfaction and was pronounced a cross between a pancake and a heavy suet pudding.–Ellen Clacy in A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53.

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Pancakes 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Pancakes 2
• Pancakes – "Flapjack" 7
• Nonfiction Usage 9
• Script Usage 9
• Journalism Usage 9
• Patent Usage 11
• Bibliographic Usage 13
• Encyclopedic Usage 20
• Lexicographic Usage 21
• Index 33