![]() ![]() In 2020, Grease was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film also received five nominations at the 36th Golden Globe Awards, including for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and two for Best Original Song, for " Grease" and "You're the One that I Want". ![]() Its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second-best-selling album of the year in the United States, only behind the soundtrack of the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, which also starred Travolta, and the song " Hopelessly Devoted to You" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 51st Academy Awards. ![]() The film was successful both critically and commercially, becoming the highest-grossing musical film at the time. Grease was released in the United States on June 16, 1978, by Paramount Pictures. The film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko ( John Travolta) and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson ( Olivia Newton-John), who develop an attraction for each other during a summer romance. THOUGH THE SDSAB DOES ITS BEST, THESE COLUMNS ARE EDITED BY ED ZOTTI, NOT CECIL, SO ACCURACYWISE YOU'D BETTER KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED.Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Bronté Woodard and an adaptation by co-producer Allan Carr, based on the stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Send questions to Cecil via REPORTS ARE WRITTEN BY THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD, CECIL'S ONLINE AUXILIARY. Hell bent (the variation "Hell bent for leather" doesn’t appear until the 1900s.).Quick as greased lightning (although "quick as lightning" dates to 1763, the grease was added in the 1840s).Quite a few terms from the 1830s and 1840s, all meaning fast, speedily, quickly, are still in use today: Hence, a vocabulary arose to reflect the new era. Steam engines, trains, and even household clocks made their appearance, changing the pace of society. ![]() After all, it was the early industrial revolution, and speed and time had new urgency. I personally like the more amusing explanation that the word "lickety" is onomatopoetic, from the ticking of a clock or the clickety-clack of a train. How licking aided in this process is not clear. One conjecture is that it derives from the verb "to lick" (with the tongue), whence "to go at great lick" or "to go at full lick," i.e., meaning to move at great speed. We don’t know exactly where the expression came from, par for the course in etymological matters. "Lickety click," "lickety cut" and "lickety switch" were other terms from the 1840s meaning the same thing. I doubt it - the earliest known appearance of lickety-split in print is 1843. One reference said that the term had been used by the Puritans back in the 1600s but gave no cite. "Lickety-split," meaning fast or quickly, apparently arose in the 1830s and 1840s. While I share your conviction that you’re wrong, the origin of this expression isn’t entirely clear. I’m sure I’m wrong, so where does the expression come from? Paul Medlock, Baltimore, MDīoy, thanks for planting that visual in my head, Mr. Recently, when I stopped to consider the phrase, it occurred to me that perhaps it wasn’t an expression for kids after all. Dear Straight Dope: I spent my formative years in Missouri, and one of our expressions for “quick” was “lickety-split.” I still hear it occasionally, even in this modern age. ![]()
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