"Don't call us, we'll call you" (1963)

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Mon Apr 2 16:10:45 UTC 2001


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>    OED News, July 1997, asked for any pre-1987 cites for "Don't call us, we'll call you."

Since that time we have been alerted to a 1959 use in the Billy Wilder
film _Some Like it Hot._ We have a note that it's being checked in the
original script; the result isn't in yet.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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