Thereby hangs a tail.
of that novel, the character Chris Haines says,"I knew you didn’t call me in here to blow smoke up my ass."
While Snopes cannot verify if this is truly the first published instance of the phrase, other research methods support a roughly 1960s origin for the phrase as well. The Google Books Ngram viewer is a free tool that searches aof English language texts, tracing the popularity of words and phrases over time. Below we show the results for the top three sentences that begin with"blow smoke up your ...
Snopes also reached out to Rob Kyff, author of several books on the origin of words and phrases and who has a "The Word Guy." We asked if he had heard anything tying the phrase to the medical practice. He told us that he had no specific insight into the"blow smoke up your ass" claim, but that"many 'folk' origins of word origins simply aren’t true.
While we cannot prove a negative, Snopes is confident, based on the lack of pre-1900 references and the idiom's current definition — which is consistent with the etymologicBecause blowing tobacco smoke into a person's ass was a real medical practice, but because no evidence supports an association between the phrase"blow smoke up your ass" and this discredited cure for"apparent death," we rank this claim"Mostly false.
Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer reporting on scientific misinformation, online fraud, and financial crime.
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