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ˈcracker-ˌbarrel orig. U.S.
A barrel containing crackers (sense 9); used attrib. of a plain or unsophisticated outlook or point of view, or of a person with such a view or views.
1877Harper's Mag. Mar. 603/1 Down at the farther end of the room turning fragments out of a cracker barrel. 1905Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 15 Sept. 12 Dr. Hall..is not above sitting on a cracker barrel in a country grocery for a chat with old acquaintances. 1919E. E. Cummings Let. 25 Aug. (1969) 61 In order that you may not sit on a cracker-barrel playing whist. 1933J. T. Flynn God's Gold i. ii. 37 Politics, rum, riches, and religion—these were the favorite topics of American cracker-barrel debaters. 1938Time 31 Oct. 26/3 On the air and in print the Burns character is that of a cracker-barrel philosopher. 1958New Statesman 22 Feb. 244/3 The late Harold Ross..was always careful to keep the New Yorker ‘a family magazine’... It's always kept close to the cracker-barrel, and remains a bastion of the commonsense American virtues. 1961John o' London's 16 Nov. 548/2 Endless cracker-barrel philosophising. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Feb. 76/5 Cracker-barrel Yankee wit. |