Word: hogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sympathy of practicality for Readers Hooper and Page who are worrying with hogs on ice and barn rats. Let Readers Hooper and Page try to catch a "hog on ice" and they will have no need of book-lore to explain the expression. Deferentially and apologetically to Reader Hooper; the expression in the hinterlands is not "pert as a barn rat," but applies to sundry persons who are described as having "the cheek of a privy rat." The bucolic rhythm beats only in the backwoods...
Such was the political hog-wallow to which Kentucky's two leading statesmen openly descended last week, two days before the end of their primary contest for Mr. Barkley's seat in the U. S. Senate...
TIME'S explanation of the phrase "as independent as a hog on ice" is weak...
...shows a blissful ignorance of the personality of swine. I envy the man who has never had to become familiar with their perversity. . . . The average hog can only be driven by a system of deceit in which one attempts to prevent it from going in the direction one really wishes it to go. With this in mind, consider a hog's tiny hoofs, supporting a body bigger than man's. Then imagine the hog on slippery ice, where his complete natural perversity and unpredictableness is further complicated by the fact that he has no control of his feet...
...expression "as independent as a hog on ice" is as old as the hills, and refers to live hogs on slippery, frozen ground, and it simply means this, "If you can't stand up you can dog-gone well sit down...