On the road

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

There's also an interesting earlier use of the idiom in Jack London's
_The People of the Abyss_ (1905):
"'On the doss,' they call vagabondage here [London], which corresponds
to 'on the road' in the United States."
NuVision Publications 2008. P. 63.


Heikki

P.S. A couple-three more posts, and I'm done for this year!

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Lit scholar Shelley Brivic says that the earliest use of the phrase 'on the
> road' referring
> to the practice of rambling without a definite goal is in "Kassie Jones part 2"
> (1928) sung
> by Furry Lewis, bluesman, most famous mayhaps for "Stick with me Baby, I'll turn
> your money green"
> [a song I've loved since i was poor].....and who was--should have been?--- known
> to Pynchon's circle of musician friends....
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