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A variant or two.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goo.gl/7ERJy">http://goo.gl/7ERJy</a><br>
Pacific Beat. By T. Jefferson Parker. 1992<br>
p. 47<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span class="st">I decided not too long ago
that liking your life isn't everything. You've got to <em>bring
something to the party</em>, make a difference...</span></blockquote>
<br>
The book is mistagged for title, author and date.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goo.gl/wll2n">http://goo.gl/wll2n</a><br>
Strategy in Action. The Execution, Politics and Payoff of Business
Planning. By Boris Yavitz, William Herman Newman. 1982<br>
Chapter 4. Corporate Input Strategy. p. 60<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span class="st">[T]hey seek synergies among
the business-units and with the corporation--the progressive
corporation does "<em>bring something to the party</em>." </span></blockquote>
<br>
This one is also mistagged for date (1984), but in the opposite
direction.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goo.gl/Yg69l">http://goo.gl/Yg69l</a><br>
PC Magazine. February 7, 1984<br>
PC News. p. 39/2<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span class="st">In other respects, says
venture capitalist Ben Rosen, the Panasonic “doesn't appear to <em>bring
anything to the party</em> that hasn't been there. </span></blockquote>
<br>
And, piece de resistace (1962?!)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goo.gl/YFfK1">http://goo.gl/YFfK1</a><br>
Life. April 27, 1962<br>
[VW "Vanagon" station wagon advertisement] p. 96<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span class="st">We once introduced a car
that looked like a beetle.<br>
So we felt that a Volkswagen Station Wagon ought to <em>bring
something new to the party</em>, too. </span></blockquote>
<br>
There is no doubt about the date--even if the magazine was misdated,
there is a copyright date on the photo.<br>
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VS-)<br>
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On 5/6/2012 10:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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cite="mid:201205061455.q464IbIH008882@waikiki.cc.uga.edu"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">A current commercial shows vegetables whooping it up in the kitchen with a
bottle of Ensure. A sexy-sounding new kind of Ensure arrives. "You bring a
lot to the party!" says her male counterpart.
This cliche' means 'to have many desirable qualities; to contribute
significantly to someone else's effort or undertaking.'
1984 Jim Shepard _Flight_ (N.Y.: New American Library) 53 [GB snippet:
seems real]: "Your friends are my friends," his mother said. His father
took the spoon from her hand and piled more peas onto his plate. "You *bring
a lot to the party*, you know it?" he said. "I know it," his mother said.
1985 Tim Carrington _The Year They Sold Wall Street_ (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin) 172 [GB snippet: looks real]: Summarizing the Canadian's words,
Jacobs wrote: " 'I will *bring a lot to the party*. I can help the firm."
And many exx. steadily since.
JL
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