Timeline for Origin of "No, a thousand times no"
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| Mar 23, 2020 at 8:33 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 23, 2020 at 6:54 | answer | added | user378484 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 19:25 | comment | added | 3D1T0R |
@Ricky: The link in your comment is broken because it SE didn't recognize the final !'s as part of it. Here's a URL-encoded version: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%21_No%21_A_Thousand_Times_No%21%21
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 19:07 | answer | added | Andrew Hidas | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 0:30 | comment | added | Hot Licks | If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times -- this is the sort of expression that is apt to be "invented" and re-invented numerous times before it becomes an "official" idiom. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 0:20 | answer | added | RJH | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 19:53 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/671416708712800256 | ||
| Nov 30, 2015 at 7:34 | comment | added | Nonnal | If this Ngram is to be believed, the phrase was common a century before Animal Farm. But I'll bet it derived from an earlier non-English phrase. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 6:25 | comment | added | Ricky | This was written ten years prior to "Animal Farm": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No!_No!_A_Thousand_Times_No!! | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 6:12 | history | edited | Darshan Chaudhary | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2015 at 5:57 | comment | added | JEL | My dim memory insists the phrase originates from the Arabic: 'And in Arabic, to say "no," we say "no, and a thousand times no."' | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 5:52 | comment | added | deadrat | Blair was born in what is now the state of Bihar in northeast India, but his mother returned to England with him when he was one year old. When Blair was 19, he returned to the Raj for a five-year stint in the Indian Imperial Police, but he was stationed in Burma, which was then administered as part of India. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 5:29 | history | asked | Darshan Chaudhary | CC BY-SA 3.0 |