near the end of his memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds NUMBER charles mackay discusses various catch phrases briefly popular in mid NUMBERth century london one of them he observes like a mushroom seems to have sprung up in the night or like a frog in cheapside to have come down in a sudden shower one day it was unheard unknown uninvented the next it pervaded london was like a frog in cheapside or something similar a catch phrase itself or did mackay come up with the simile on his own and to what event or events does it refer i didn t find anything relevant in partridge s a dictionary of catch phrases bc yahoo groups sponsor looking for a more powerful website try geocities for NUMBER NUMBER per month register your domain name http your name com more storage no ads URL URL to unsubscribe from this group send an email to forteana unsubscribe URL your use of yahoo groups is subject to URL 