Wolfgang Mieder, the world's foremost expert on proverbs, has asked me to look into the origins of the phrase "let George do it." Below is an antedating, but I would welcome any further antedatings that anyone else can find. Fred Shapiro let George do it (OED 1910, HDAS 1910) 1909 _Columbus Dispatch_ 29 June (Newspaperarchive) Title of comic strip by George McManus