fun with phrases

[Jonathan Lighter]

>"But, wait! There's more!"

A clear ex. (in a magazine ad) from 1915, something of a jump after 1940, a
rising tide after 1980.

"You won't believe your eyes!"

ECCO finds one from about 1713 [!]. Then there's nothing till an ex. in an
1886 novel by George Gissing; a low baseline of use from the '20s through
the '60s (almost exclusively in ads), then the lid blows off.

JL

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > "The answer may surprise you."
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> "But, wait! There's more!"
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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