[Ads-l] Fun with Phrases: "You can't make this stuff up."

[Ben Zimmer]

Doug Wilson found examples back to 1979 the last time this came up.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2012-November/123252.html


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been hearing this on nearly a daily basis for months. Obviously.
>
> Humorist Bill Barry used it regularly in his columns ca2000.
>
> GB finds a 1996 ex., not from Dave Barry.  Maybe Barry Popik has something
> earlier.
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