the old college try
There was a brief thread about the expression here, but it took the phrase only back to the '20s; an Ask MetaFilter thread on the subject has a quotation from 1919 (Christy Mathewson in the NY Times)....
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By one year at NPA: A newspaper column by that title by Billy Sunday which has a 1917 copyright by The Bell Syndicate Inc. Appears in an Elyria Ohio paper October of 1918.Actually, the evangelist puts...
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Good find, jgor. Sam Clements posted the same in Jan 2004 at ADS-L, so I'd be pretty sure it's the oldest sighting anyone's found.
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