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Whose line is it anyway?

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We all borrow interesting and clever phrases from other people: it's how we all communicate, and of course it's what makes the English language so wonderful.

The writer and broadcaster Max Cryer has looked at the origins of some of our better known sayings in his book Who Said that First?


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