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[Laurence Horn]

Is there anything new on "throw under the bus"?  This has been in the news a lot lately, after Patriots' coach Bill Belichick's (initial) conference in which he seemed to be laying the bad acts (if indeed there were any) at the hands of his longtime star quarterback Tom Brady.  Most recently, the open of Saturday Night Live last night characterized this as Belichick's throwing Brady under the bus, but it's been all over the airwaves and blogosphere over the last three days.  (Arguably, he threw science under the same bus in yesterday's presser, but as a Pats fan, I'm happy to drink the koolaid.)

The wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_under_the_bus) quotes Geoff Nunberg on the plethora of uses of the phrase during the 2008 primary campaign and cites Grant's Double-Tongued Dictionary for a 1991 cite.  Are there any new antedates or theories on who came up with what is, after all, a remarkably vivid and specific metaphor?

LH 
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