> [...], I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. When I read that, I thought of Amazon (book selling river) but wasn't sure i

> [...], I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. When I read that, I thought of Amazon (book selling river) but wasn't sure if 'sold down the river' was some idiom. Searching for it brought me to: > journalist Lee Sandlin said "the threat of being 'sold down the river' was seen as tantamount to a death sentence." [1] What an impressive choice of words! [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/01/27/265421504/what-does-sold-down-the-river-really-mean-the-answer-isnt-pretty https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/01/27/265421504...