"Thanks! I Needed That!"

[Victor Steinbok]

  Is it incredible or does it suggest that the expression was already
idiomatic at this point?

     VS-)

On 8/24/2010 2:20 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Great work, Garson.
>
> Incredible that two novels, both published early in 1953 (Uris's by
> Putnam and Gann's by Sloane), contain similar melodramatic scenes.
>
> JL

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