[Ads-l] Possible Antedatings of "Tennis, Anyone"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Oct 8 14:18:37 UTC 2022


The OED's first citation for "tennis, anyone?" is dated 1953.  Earlier examples for that or paraphrases of it may be found in the quoteinvestigator.com and wordhistories.net websites and the New Yale Book of Quotations.

Fred Shapiro

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