"Man up" pops up in 1961

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Behind X a thousand percent" seemed possibly anachronistic  for 1961,
but GB comes up with two apparently legitimate snippets from WWII.

Not many before the '70s however.

JL

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Evan Morris <words1 at word-detective.com> wrote:
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> On page 321 of Stephen King's best-selling novel 11/22/63, we find, in a
> scene set in 1961:
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> He grinned. "Bobbi Jill's behind me a thousand percent. Says to man up
> and stop letting those other guys get my goat."
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> Well, it is a time-travel story.
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> (I am not actually reading said book, but my wife is.)
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