'The first written use of the phrase "stuffed shirt", meaning a pompous bore, occurred in her 1913 novel "O Pioneers!"'
(Willa) Cather
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS: The first written use of the phrase stuffed shirt, meaning a pompous bore, occurred in her 1913 novel O Pioneers!
The first written use of the phrase "stuffed shirt", meaning a pompous bore, occurred in her 1913 novel "O Pioneers!"
The first written use of the phrase "stuffed shirt", meaning a pompous bore, occurred in her 1913 novel "O Pioneers!"
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Willa Cather
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS