"What goes around, comes around" (1962 by Paul Crump)

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Jul 26 13:45:32 UTC 2007


On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> The Yale Book of Quotations has this on pg. 527, Modern Proverbs #37, "What
> goes around, comes around," by Malcolm Braly, _On the Yard_ (1967).

Very nice antedating, Barry!  Even with all its faults, Google Books seems
worth checking, although for "whole nine yards" it seems only to lead to
silliness.

Fred Shapiro


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