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What's the origin of "laughing all the way to the bank"?
WordHoistories.net dates it back to 1908:
The phrase to laugh—also to cry—all the way to the bank means to relish—also (ironically) to deplore—the fact that one is making money, especially ...
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What is a concentration camp exactly? Are US detention centers on the US-Mexico border "concentration camps"?
There is a hot "debate" on Twitter regarding whether the detention centers used by the US border patrol to detain/hold immigrants can be called "concentration camps" or not.
Can ...
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Origin of "to have a cow"
Following up on Hugo's excellent answer, I offer the following early occurrence of the phrase "don't have a cow" from an advertisement for Jay Perri's Sock Hop on WTOP channel 9 in ...
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