The Rabbit Died: Difference between revisions

"'''The Rabbit Died'''" became a [[Stock Phrase]] for a positive -- that is, pregnant -- result.<ref>However, since it was necessary to dissect the rabbit to examine its ovaries, it ''always'' died.</ref> Although it was replaced in the 1960s by immunoassays that didn't involve animal testing, "the rabbit test" and "the rabbit died" remained in the popular lexicon for several decades afterward. Today in the early 21st century it is almost but not quite a [[Forgotten Trope]], still hanging on despite all the variations on the different ways various home pregnancy tests announce their results have tried to displace it over the years. It can still be heard now and then, though, usually in a humorous context, as well as in period works, of course.

 

 

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