Antedatings in the Yale Book of Quotations -- 25: Read My Lips

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Towse wrote:

> "read my lips" was not new with GHWB.

Yes, the cross-references in the Yale Book of Quotations take it back to
1957.

Fred Shapiro


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