Recently my good friend A.J. Campbell, who just happens to be a niece of Warren County’s most famous native, Dottie West, sent me a text because her son, Colin, was asking how this phrase got started. Luckily I did the work on this one over ten years ago and it appears in my first large volume of "Most Comprehensive Origins of Clichés, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions" which can be found in libraries across the country.