“Do you know that Lolita has declared herself…?” [i.e., she has been spoken for?]
“At last…! Who?”
“No one, gals, it was measles that declared itself three days ago.”
(Buen humor, Madrid, 1923) (shaky on the idiom)
Three days ago
“Do you know that Lolita has declared herself…?” [i.e., she has been spoken for?]
“At last…! Who?”
“No one, gals, it was measles that declared itself three days ago.”
(Buen humor, Madrid, 1923) (shaky on the idiom)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 