Since Hector was a pup
Posted by R. Berg on December 15, 2002
In Reply to: A phrase posted by paul johnsen on December 15, 2002
: my old dad used to say something was old, since "Heck was a
pup."
: Roman - Hecaba - dog - hades welp of cerberus?
: littleford01@msn.com
The traditional phrase is slightly different: "since Hector was a pup." Eric Partridge (Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day) says it goes back to about 1920. Hector used to be a common name for a large dog.
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