#The next big thing in science full
His reply was a follows: ""It is too full of big things." There is some truth in this assertion.
In a friendly chat with one of my medical friends, recently, I asked him why he did not take the Journal of the American Medical Association. Howle, M.D., to the editor of Journal of the American Medical Association (April 28, 1894): Yet another instance that suggests movement in that direction appears in a letter by W.P. They take us a considerable distance toward the modern meaning, "the newest fad or breakthrough or popular success," and they continue unabated over the next several decades. These instances, where "the next big thing" is roughly equivalent to "the next big event," appear in multiple places in the late 1870s: in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (December 7, 1876) in connection with a political intrigue in Cairo, Illinois (May 5, 1877), a "baby exposition" in Newberry, South Carolina again (March 20, 1878), Easter in Brenham, Texas (July 19, 1878), a "Pomological exhibition" Hillsborough, Ohio (June 19, 1879), a school commencement exercise and Memphis, Tennessee (September 2, 1880), a railroad and steamboat excursion. M., on Friday Evening, is the next big thing on the boards. 3, at Dowling Hall, will be a big affair. The4 New Year's ball, by the Prairie City Lodge, No. Smiyh & Christian, of this place, who keep champagne on ice, and sudorifics, generally, and who, on this occasion, in their usual gallant style, sent us a bottle of Heidsic, which, with the assistance of the devil, we duly drank to the success of the granite walk, being the next big thing now on the tapis of Newberry.Īs noted in a recent answer to an old question about the origin of "on tap," the idiom "on the tapis" means "on the table," "under consideration," or (by extension) "in the offing."Īnd from an untitled item in the Terre Haute Evening Gazette (December 28, 1875):
The chunks of ice for the Herald, came through Messrs. Which initially sounds like a thoroughly modern use of "the next big thing," until the ad turns to its next implement:īut the biggest thing yet is the newly introduced and novel Machine entitled CAHOON'S BROADCAST SEED SOWER! This is generating great interest all over the country, and is destined to rapidly become the most popular article of its class.Įvidently, although "big thing" has a very modern sense of "big deal" or "popular favorite" in this advertisement, the wording "the next 'big thing'" as used here just means "the next popular favorite in our lineup."īy 1870, "the next big thing" has taken another step forward and begins appearing in the sense of "the next major planned event." From " Seegers' Ice," in the Newberry Herald (September 7, 1870): The next big thing is the EMPIRE GRAIN DRILL! According to the advertisement, after observing that the Mohawk Valley Clipper Plow "hardly needs a recommendation": in the Erie Observer (1869) for several farm implements-a plow, a grain drill, and a seed sower. Somewhat closer to the modern meaning is an advertisement for W.W. Here, the expression seems to mean nothing more than "the second-most important holding." The meaning of the phrase at this stage bears little relation to the modern idiomatic sense described in user159691's question. dividend on New York Central capital shares. The New York Tribune says Vanderbilt won the belt, and makes the Commodore's performance in the premises the next "big thing" to his eighty per cent. The last war between the Atlantic trunk lines for the trade for and from common points in the West lasted only ten days, terminating on the 27th day of February. From a news item in the Richmond Dispatch (March 9, 1869): The earliest instance of the character string "the next big thing" that a Google Books search turns up frames the character string as "the next 'big thing'"-that is, it treats "big thing" as the set phrase and uses next as a simple modifier.
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