[Ads-l] Antedating of "That Ship Has Sailed"

[Shapiro, Fred]

that ship has sailed (OED 1968)

1920 Boston Herald 19 Nov. 18/9 (GenealogyBank)

THAT SHIP HAS SAILED ... It appears to me that this vote on the part of the striking policemen to give up their union charter comes a little late.

Fred Shapiro

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