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Note that your etymology link agrees with mine (via skylark). OED cites P.G.Wodehouse (for a lark), and J.Krantz (of a lark).
by dcminter 5y ago
Note that your etymology link agrees with mine (via skylark).
OED cites P.G.Wodehouse (for a lark), and J.Krantz (of a lark).
- CyberRabbi 5y agoThe homophone with lark (the bird) likely reinforced the idiom but was probably not the origin of it. “For a lark” is correct as well, OED does not cite “as a lark.” The phrase “as a lark” probably emerges as a mixture of “as a joke” and “on a lark.”