Antedating of "No-Brainer"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri May 23 12:53:49 UTC 2008

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"No-brainer" has a first use of 1977 in OED.  The phrases.org.uk cite gives citations back to 1959.

Fred Shapiro

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