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the Big Drink; Big Ditch; Big Water; Big Pond. The Big Drink, the first humorous American phrase for the Atlantic, Pacific, or any big body of water, seems to have been coined anonymously in 1844 and was also a name for the Mississippi River, which is more commonly called the Big Ditch of Big Wa- ter. Big Ditch, coined in 1825, has also been applied to the At- lantic, but is most commonly associated with the Erie Canal. The Big Pond, a humorous term for the Atlantic, stems from about 1840, when it was coined by Canadian humorist Thomas Haliburton. |