Talk:African skyscraper

RFV discussion: February–June 2024
A giraffe. One of Jonathon Green's slang books mentions this in passing as an (obsolete?) Americanism, but I find no uses. Equinox ◑ 12:16, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * There a half dozen or so hits for a search for  on Newspapers.com, most seem to be merely descriptive such "this African skyscraper". The closest I see to uses are The Independent's 14 Jul 1937, Page 8 headline of "African Skyscrapers Observe New York Skyline" and the line from The Paducah Sun-Democrat's 11 Aug 1947,·Page 4 "[...] when a monkey climbed a giraffe's neck and asked the African skyscraper: [...]". &mdash;The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 07:23, 26 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Yes, "skyscraper" is defined as "anything very tall or high", so this doesn't necessarily argue for "African skyscraper" as a set phrase in English. Compare "this deep-sea monster" if talking of a fish. Equinox ◑ 14:46, 26 February 2024 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed, since there is only one non-literal cite, and it might still just be using [African] + the idiomatic meaning of [skyscraper], not using [African skyscraper] idiomatically. - -sche (discuss) 05:27, 14 June 2024 (UTC)