[Ads-l] Antedating of "Great Game"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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Great Game (OED 1841)

1804 Arthur Wellesley _Letter to Colonel Murray_ 2 May in _The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington_ (1837) 3: 297-8

You now have a great game on your hands.

Fred Shapiro




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