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I say it's spinach (sometimes given in full as I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it or further abbreviated to just spinach) is a twentieth-century American idiom 〔 with the approximate meaning of "nonsense" or "rubbish".〔 It is usually spoken or written as an anapodoton, thus only first part of the complete phrase ("I say it's spinach") is given to imply the second part, which is what is actually meant: "I say the hell with it." ==Rose and White's cartoon== The phrase originated as the caption of a gag cartoon published in ''The New Yorker'' on December 8, 1928. Drawn by Carl Rose and captioned by E. B. White,〔 the cartoon shows a modern bourgeois mother at table trying to convince her young daughter to eat her vegetable, the dialogue being :''Mother'': "It's broccoli, dear." :''Daughter'': "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." (Broccoli was a relative novelty at that time, just then being widely introduced by Italian immigrant growers to the tables of East Coast cities.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I say it's spinach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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