Mutt and Jeff?
At bbcnews.com, one form of interrogation is described as:"The "Mutt and Jeff" approach - nice guy and nasty guy. "I remember a story about Mutt and Jeff from my childhood, but it seems to me like...
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"Mutt and Jeff" also seems like a poor name for this sort of thing, since the original Mutt and Jeff were opposites in height but not in personality. They were a tall guy and a short guy, not a nasty...
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That makes more sense...my mom called my friend and I Mutt and Jeff because I'm 5'10" and my friend is 5'2"...I didn't know the reference and the first post made me very confused :-) Thanks for...
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en passant:"Bud Fisher (1885 - 1954)- Mutt & Jeff 1907The first successful daily comic strip, MUTT AND JEFF, initially appeared under the title A. MUTT on the sports pages of the SAN FRANCISCO...
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I think the BBC usage is just ill-informed. I've never heard it in this sense. It's common meaning here in the UK is as slang for deaf.
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So to reiterate Joe's question, is the phrase "good cop, bad cop" recognized and/or used over there to describe this sort of thing? In the US it's common enough to be used figuratively even in...
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"A. Mutt," huh? I wonder if that influenced Duchamp's use of the nom-de-pissoir "R. Mutt" for his famous urinal.
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>> Jeff was the tall skinny oneOther way around. Example below from here; (also see www.toonopedia.com/muttjeff.htm):
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