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Originally Posted by cajunscot
During the Great Depression, a turned-out pocket, usually a trouser pocket, was known as a "Hoover flag", in reference to President Hoover. That's what I thought of when I read this thread.
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Todd
Are you sure they weren't just hoovering the cat hair off the trousers and caught the pocket lining?
Are you sure they weren't just hoovering the cat hair off the trousers and caught the pocket lining?
No, I'm being serious. "Hoover blankets" were newspapers. A "Hooverville" was a collection of ramshackle lean-tos and tents, the most famous being on the Ancostia Flats in Washington during the Bonus March.
Originally Posted by Jack Daw
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