Origin of the word Paddywagon

A harbinger is just a messenger or forewarning of something. There can be harbingers of anything really.

I imagine the ending "...of doom" is used so often because doom is something that usually slowly and/or ominously builds over time and as such, there is usually a harbinger or warning of some kind - not necessarily so with other things maybe.

Partly a guess I admit. :confused:
 
it gets a good treatment on Wikipedia - no linking with "doom" though so I think your explanation is spot on.

I suppose "foreboding" meaning "feeling that trouble is coming" is along the same lines.
 
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