Let's not do it and say we did.
This is my first post to this group, which was prompted by my curiousity over the origin of this phrase. I first heard it growing up in the 70's, and I always assumed it was a product of that...
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I first heard it in the '70s (in the form 'let's not and say that we did'), but the context strongly suggested that it was an allusion to something much earlier.And if DHJam first heard the phrase, as...
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This link says it goes back to the '20s. Memory is a poor record but I seem to recall it from my youth which means, if I recall correctly, adult used it in the '40s or '50s.
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I know it as "Let's not and say we did," and my mother (born in 1915) used it as far back as I can remember (the '50s).
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