"What part of 'No!' ...?"

[Jonathan Lighter]

This has become a big-time cliche' over the last few years, right there with the somewhat older "Read my lips!"

  Here's the earliest I've found :

  1992  _L.A. Times_ (Washington ed.) (July 8) B6 [cited at: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.aids/browse_thread/thread/72ca435d6d1d391f/6fc718634a554f98?lnk=st&q=%22what+part+of+no+don%27t+you+understand%22+1991&rnum=9#6fc718634a554f98] : The spots all involve teenagers and how they handle the peer pressure to have sex.  "Just what part of 'no' don't you understand?" a teenager tells her boyfriend.

  JL


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