Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 18: Light at the End of the Tunnel

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 07:43:44PM -0500, Fred Shapiro wrote:
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> The citations below enhance the information in The Yale Book of
> Quotations.
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> light at the end of the tunnel (OED 1971)
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> 1902 [etc.]

I should point out that the OED's entry includes other similar
figurative uses of "tunnel", and does not separate out "light"
into a different entry. It has "daylight at the end of the
tunnel" from 1922.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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