Slickers

And Islanders shouldn’t put away the fleece pullovers and slickers yet.

Surprisingly enough, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold is one of those rare, great comedy sequels that just might be better than the original.

Part of your “back to school” routine was your parents buying the ghastly snow suits, boots, mittens, scarves, rain slickers and whatever else the well-dressed young person needed for travel.

The City Slickers guy.

They may be slickers or country bumpkins, they may live in Europe, or Asia, or perhaps the US.

Crystal then starred in the award-winning buddy comedy City Slickers (1991), which proved very successful both commercially and critically and for which Crystal was nominated for his second Golden Globe.

Dogpatch residents regularly combat the likes of city slickers, business tycoons, government officials and intellectuals with their homespun simplicity.

In popular music, Spike Jones and his City Slickers recorded "So 'Elp Me", based on rhyming slang (without the hemiteleia), in 1950.

Will Rogers lamented what the "Oregon apple knockers" had done to his "city slickers" in a column after the game.