SELL BRIDGES IN THE SAHARA DESERT



No, this isn't from a Hollywood agent saying, "ENGLISH PATIENT? You want

Jeff Bridges! Sure, babe, you can sell Bridges in the Sahara Desert!"

Perhaps it's a variant of "selling the Brooklyn Bridge," or "selling like

hotcakes." After "sell bridges in the Sahara Desert" came "sell ice to

Eskimos."

Like the above, I couldn't find many citations, and found this one in my

files.

The H. C. Fisher "Mutt and Jeff" cartoon for 27 May 1922 (many newspapers,

but this copy is from the Cleveland Plain Dealer) is titled "Jeff Could Sell

Bridges in the Sahara Desert."

I came back from the Sahara Desert recently. It could use bridges.



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