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

Wed Oct 25 23:56:23 UTC 2006

On Oct 25, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Fred Shapiro wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:

what follows is material i quoted, not material i wrote.

>> The earliest reference I can find is from the song 'Sue Me, Sue Me',
>> in the musical 'Guys and Dolls'. This was a Broadway show in 1950 and
>> released as a film in 1955. This was composed by Frank Loesser and
>> sung in the film version by Frank Sinatra (as Nathan Detroit) and
>> Vivian Blaine (as Miss Adelaide):
>
> The Yale Book of Quotations, which probably got its info from
> Barry Popik, has the following:
>
> Well, sue me.
>        George Jessel, quoted in Boston Globe, 17 Feb. 1929

any early cites in exactly the form "so sue me"?

arnold

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