“The first record of [barking mad] that I can find in print is from the USA. The 11th November 1927 edition of the Oklahoma newspaper The Ada Evening News reported on the frenetic and, if contemporary photographs are to be believed, borderline insane sport of Auto-polo:    ‘At 2:30 this afternoon at Park field a half dozen barking mad auto polo cars will be whirled into action.’”

“The first record of [barking mad] that I can find in print is from the USA. The 11th November 1927 edition of the Oklahoma newspaper The Ada Evening News reported on the frenetic and, if contemporary photographs are to be believed, borderline insane sport of Auto-polo:

    ‘At 2:30 this afternoon at Park field a half dozen barking mad auto polo cars will be whirled into action.’”

Méliès, Escamotage d’une femme

Méliès, Escamotage d’une femme

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/andrewkg/ass.final.pdf

We refer to these expressions collectively as “your ass”. Your ass is not simply a possessive
pronoun + NP (PossNP) construction since, primarily, it is semantically non-compositional,
This is clearly evidenced by (1c), where it is the members of the band who know how to
jam (not their buttocks) and likewise the speaker presumably handed the ten dollars to the
woman with his hands (not his buttocks).

 - In 3 we argue that your ass’s unusual behavior is due to its semantic and social functions and that it can be accommodated once these are taken into account.
And so will I.

And so will I.

William Powell, The Thin Man (1934)

William Powell, The Thin Man (1934)

It is a child that sings itself to sleep,
The mind - - wstevens, the owl in the sarcophagus