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Another lyric question in SOUND OF MUSIC?

Posted by:	portenopete 12:38 pm EST 12/07/13

In "How Can Love Survive?" Max sings the line "Plenty of nothing you haven't got". I have always taken it as a reference to PORGY AND BESS, but is it likely that Austrians in 1938 ('39?) would have been so familiar with it to share a joke like that? I suppose if he is in the Ministry of Culture it's not that crazy. Or was "plenty of nothing" (or "plenty o'nuttin'") an expression before the opera?

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