"a legend in one's own mind"

[Grant Barrett]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 15:09, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>   Based, of course, on "a legend in one's own time."

I came across a nice variation recently. It seems to be mainly
Australian:

http://www.dtww.org/index.php/citations/legend_in_ones_lunchtime_1/

2006 Sydney Morning Herald "Australia loses man who lit the flame for
wine industry" (Aug. 18): Len Evans, for whom the phrase "legend in
his own lunchtime" might have been coined, used to quote Lord Byron
saying that all farewells should be sudden.

Grant Barrett
Double-Tongued Word Wrester
http://www.doubletongued.org/
editor at doubletongued.org

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