1611. Davies, Paper Persecutors, 81. England is all turned Yorkshire, and the age Extremely sottish, or too nicely sage.
1706. Ward, Wooden World, 39. All this put together must needs make him follow his nose with great boldness . . . no wonder . . . he's MORE CONFIDENT of his Way than a Yorkshire Carrier.
1772. Bridges, Burlesque Homer, 2. At first approach he made a bow, Such as your Yorkshire tikes make now. Ibid., 478. A pastrycook That made good pigeon pye of rook, Cut venison from Yorkshire hogs And made rare mutton-*pies of dogs.
1796. Holman, Abroad and at Home, i. 1. His Yorkshire simplicity will qualify him admirably for the profession.
1839. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xlii. 'Wa'at I say, I stick by.' 'And that's a fine thing to do, and manly too,' said Nicholas, 'though it's not exactly what we understand by "coming Yorkshire over us" in London.'
Yorkshire-hunters (The), subs. phr. (old military).—A regiment formed by the gentlemen of Yorkshire during the Civil War.
You. You're another, phr. (old).—A tu quoque: i.e. ANOTHER liar, fool, thief—any imaginable term of abuse.
1534. Udal, Roister Doister, iii. 5. Roister. If it were an other but thou, it were a knaue. M. Mery. Ye are an other your selfe, sir, the lorde us both saue.
1561. Preston, Cambyses [Dodsley, Old Plays (Hazlitt), iv. 220]. Thou call'st me knave, THOU ART ANOTHER.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, ix. vi. 'I did not mean to abuse the cloth; I only said your conclusion was a non sequitur.' 'You are another,' cries the sergeant, 'an' you come to that; no more a sequitur than yourself.'
1836. Dickens, Pickwick, xv. 'Sir,' said Mr. Tupman, 'you're a fellow.' 'Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'YOU'RE ANOTHER.'
1882. Boston Lit. World, 3 June, 184. 3. The argument of it is simply, 'You're another,' a retort in dignified manner to . . . British critics.
1888. Sir W. Harcourt, Speech at Eighty Club, 21 Feb. Little urchins in the street have a conclusive argument. They say 'YOU'RE ANOTHER.'
d. 1891. Lowell, Democracy. I find little to interest and less to edify me in these international bandyings of YOU'RE ANOTHER.
You Bet, intj. phr. (American).—You may depend on it; to be sure! certainly! the most positive of affirmations: also 'YOU BET your boots,' 'life," 'bottom dollar,' and so on. [Originally a Californian phrase: it has also been given as a name in the form of Ubet to a town in the Canadian Northwest.]
1870. Bret Harte, Poems, etc., The Tale of a Pony. Ah, here comes Rosey's new turn-out! Smart! You bet your life 'twas that!
c. 1840. Grandpa's Soliloquy [Bartlett]. To little Harry, yesterday,—My grandchild, aged two,—I said, 'You love Grandpa?' said he, 'You bet your boots I do.'
18[?]. Buffalo Courier, 'Mystified Quaker.' His answer's gross irrelevance I shall not soon forget, Instead of simply yea or nay, he gruffly said, 'You bet.'
1872. S. Clemens ('Mark Twain'), Roughing It, ii. 'The mosquitoes are pretty bad about here, madam!' 'You bet!' 'What did I understand you to say, madam?' 'You bet!'
c. 1882. Stavely Hill, From Home to Home. We reached the settlement of Ubet. The name had been selected from the slang phrase so laconically expressive of 'You may be sure I will.'
1888. Daily Inter-Ocean, 7 Mar. Congressional Report. Mr. Boutelle. That is the bravery to which you refer? (Applause on the Republican side.) Mr. O'Ferrall. Well, sir, it is the right kind of bravery: you may BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR on that.
