Wallys mustache


Ward and June used the term "raising a mustache".
I never heard that term before. Did the writers come up with it or is it a old fashion term from the past that is no longer used?

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Well, Ward grew up on a farm. Maybe they raised more than dairy cows. 




"You cannot boil a llama and expect it to taste like a grilled monkey".

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It was an old expression. In a movie, Carrie, with Jennifer Jones and Laurence Olivier, Eddie Albert is admiring himself in the mirror and says he might even raise a mustache. Old expression gone like most expressions.

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When I was a kid, my father sometimes talked about "raising a beard".
Never happened, though; Mom would have killed him if he did!
LOL

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