Meanings
- not comparableAfter a funeral.
It used to be known as the “John Garfield Still Dead” syndrome, after the extensive postfuneral coverage of a movie star who had a fatal heart attack in 1952 in the bed of a woman other than his wife.
2009 July 9, Gail Collins, “Michael, a Foreign Affair”, in New York Times
Origin
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