"Put/Stick That in Your Pipe and Smoke it"
informal—used to tell someone that he or she must accept what one says is true even though he or she might not like it or agree with it"It's a stupid movie." "Oh really? Well it was just nominated for an Oscar, so put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it!"- Merriam-Webster.com
It all goes back to Charles Dickens but then again not really. I'll explain... an incomplete glimpse of the idiom at hand reads as "— Put that in his pipe —" in The Pickwick Papers (1836) as part of "a lengthened string of similar broken sentences..." So not really because a) it is incomplete, & b) in its incompleteness, it is used in such a way as to read familiarly; so it certainly does go back at least a good deal more.
Still, this is the first it appears on the big written permanent record. So it circulated/stewed some good amount of time it would seem. Perhaps in certain circles wherein smoking pipe tobacco was quite common. While photographic evidence of Dickens getting his 'baccy on doesn't exist according to my Google searches, it is safe to say he indulged.
THE TIMES IN WHICH HE LIVED
(Sometimes I like to yell between paragraphs.) There are many references to pipe-smoking in his stories, as the case above is one of ::: very ::: many. This happens so often that drawings of Dickens sometimes include him smoking a pipe--unfortunately, these seem to have been done after his crossing of the rainbow bridge...
With scant evidence at hand, let's continue along our merry way, unimpeded by fact (or lack thereof). This ain't some sort of trial, it's far more some sort of trail. For much of the time in which he lived and worked, smoking was relegated to cigars, pipes, and chew; pipes being the most common, cigarettes not having fully happened yet. In-abouts his mid-life crisis, he saw the coming of both briar pipes and flue-cured tobaccos.
Interesting to note is that the phase we have gathered here today on account of, is not a briar sort of a thing, per se. and is most likely a phrase carried-over from the previous generation's clay pipe usage in which you truly could smoke about anything that'd stick in your bowl. In the annoying world of briar pipery there are nagging ghosting and rotational concerns. I kid & digress.
Also, Chuck's adult life was squarely-so placed within the confines of the Victorian Era in which smoking was banned in all public places--a good reason for lack of pics, smoking in solitude in your flat. Plus, Instagram wouldn't come around for some long while after. I'm probably still kidding but am also factually correct. Another & final fact--if you wanted to recreate a Dickens of a smoke session--he probably smoked Oriental blends.
"Reposing in the sunlight, with the fragrance of his eastern pipe about him, and the dreamy smoke vanishing into the air, so rich and soft with summer odours, he reckoned up his advantages as an idle winner might count his gains." - Hard Times, 1854
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