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[Caroline Webb]

Presumably he did, as apparently the exclamation is used in several of his earlier films.

We don’t have the saying “ . . . Crickets” in Australia, as far as I know, but if we did it would probably be cicadas instead!

Caroline

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Aha – thanks to Mark and Jeanne for this. I had assumed that the idiom had not crossed the Atlantic because there are no crickets in the UK, but Google tells me that there are. I guess that the idea is that the silence is so deafening (another
Aha – thanks to Mark and Jeanne for this. I had assumed that the idiom had not crossed the Atlantic because there are no crickets in the UK, but Google tells me that there are. I guess that the idea is that the silence is so deafening (another idiom) that you can hear the crickets. Two additional bits of trivia. Buddy Holly's group was named The Crickets – and the Beatles reported that this inspired the name of their group. When  Holly's first album, "The Chirping Crickets," was recorded, there was a live cricket chirping in the studio that eluded attempts to catch it. Its chirping can be heard as the song "I'm Gonna Love You Too" fades out. And finally: did Walt Disney know that "Jimminy Cricket!" was a euphemism for "Jesus Christ!"? I always understood that he was quite devout and strait-laced, so this has puzzled me.

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Hi Jeremy,

That means "to silence" (on the part of humans)--there was no reaction--only the sound of crickets. On my university campus, in North Carolina, I've heard variations of this expression frequently in the past few years, especially when it comes to teaching; e.g., my lecture was met by "crickets."

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Jeanne

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"her book published to crickets. " I've not come aacross this idiom before. What is its origin? Jeremy H From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces@ lists. osu. edu> On Behalf Of Kllevenback via Vwoolf Sent: Friday, January 20, 2023 2: 51 PM To: 
"her book published to crickets." I've not come aacross this idiom before. What is its origin?

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Review | A failing academic tries to retain her optimism in ‘The Guest Lecture’ Martin Riker’s novel dissects how people live with their ideas, particularly when the world tells them those ideas are misguided. By Maggie Lange https: //www. washingtonpost. com/books/2023/01/19/martin-riker-novel-review/

Review | A failing academic tries to retain her optimism in ‘The Guest Lecture’

Martin Riker’s novel dissects how people live with their ideas, particularly when the world tells them those ideas are misguided.

By Maggie Lange



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