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Bookmark or Share- Origin of the phrase "Now we're cooking with"Coney Island" became a word in the University of Chicago's new dictionary, but terms like "now you're cooking with gas" and "that ain't the way I heard it", used by the people who frequent Coney Island continued to confuse word experts. It was used in a 1942 film, The Big Street: Florida Doctor: Did you ever hear of a thing called paranoia?
- Coney and rabbit: what’s the difference? - English Language & Usage ...So coney is a sort of older, local, or rustic name for any leporid or even lagomorph, one perhaps still favored by Bilbo’s furriers. Another place you might come across coney is in the dialect word to coney-fogle, also spelled connyfogle. It means to ingratiate oneself, to cheat by bewildering.
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