Have you ever coined a phrase or saying that's become widely used?

I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.
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Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.5
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Yeah, I was definitely the first to say Peter Crouch had a good touch for a big guy.
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Did Jimmy Hill come up with that? You learn something new everydayDaveMehmet said:Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.
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Well I hope so SoundasSoundAsa£ said:Many years ago I was in The Chelsea Arts Club of all places with a group of musso faces(about a dozen of us having lunch) and someone mentioned someone (I don't remember exactly who it was) as being a leg-end.....ie.....a legend.
I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.
Must be nice to realise you invented a phrase that has entered the language.0 -
It was actually a reply to the OPcafcdave123 said:
Did Jimmy Hill come up with that? You learn something new everydayDaveMehmet said:Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.
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I invented the word "pants" meaning "crap" in 1995.2
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I was joking that it was as likely that Jimmy Hill came up with that as the OP's claim. ..DaveMehmet said:
It was actually a reply to the OPcafcdave123 said:
Did Jimmy Hill come up with that? You learn something new everydayDaveMehmet said:Itchy beard, Jimmy Hill.
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Well, I just don't know for sure, I mean to say how could I......but there's a damn good chance it's how it came about.3blokes said:
Well I hope so SoundasSoundAsa£ said:Many years ago I was in The Chelsea Arts Club of all places with a group of musso faces(about a dozen of us having lunch) and someone mentioned someone (I don't remember exactly who it was) as being a leg-end.....ie.....a legend.
I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.
Must be nice to realise you invented a phrase that has entered the language.0 -
Errr, I'll look into it4
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Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?
Edit - from 1993
Richard Ingrams used it
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This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?A-R-T-H-U-R said:Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?0 -
Pardew you are a cnut.
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When was this? You said is was "many years ago". Roughly how many?SoundAsa£ said:Many years ago I was in The Chelsea Arts Club of all places with a group of musso faces(about a dozen of us having lunch) and someone mentioned someone (I don't remember exactly who it was) as being a leg-end.....ie.....a legend.
I then piped up with....."yes, and what's more he's a leg-end in his own lunchtime." General laughter all round.
Now, the term 'legend in his own lunchtime' has over the years become quite a well known quip.
I said it without having ever heard it from anyone else.......I genuinely thought of it myself.
I've often wondered if my silly throw away comment all those years ago brought the expression into being.......a crazy notion some might think, but I'd like to think it's true.
Certainly none of the people there that day had heard it said before.0 -
No, but as a subscriber I just recalled it used often.SoundAsa£ said:
This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?A-R-T-H-U-R said:Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?
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Ha ha......I honestly don't know mate.....like I said earlier.....who knows......who knows.A-R-T-H-U-R said:
No, but as a subscriber I just recalled it used often - no doubt from you in 1977SoundAsa£ said:
This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?A-R-T-H-U-R said:Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?
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I have some disapppointing news, @SoundAsa£ - it was first used in print in 1973.
Legend in his own lunchtime.1 -
Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?0
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Forgotten what?North Lower Neil said:Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?
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Well I think you were a trendsetter at the very least!SoundAsa£ said:
Ha ha......I honestly don't know mate.....like I said earlier.....who knows......who knows.A-R-T-H-U-R said:
No, but as a subscriber I just recalled it used often - no doubt from you in 1977SoundAsa£ said:
This would have been around 1977/78......who knows where they got it from.....do you know ARTHUR?A-R-T-H-U-R said:Private Eye have used the 'Legend in his own lunchtime' expression for many years.
Were you with any of their editorial team at the Chelsea Arts Club?
I shamefully confess to sadly spreading a rumour, out of boredom whilst living in India, that the author of a very famous guidebook had been killed when his motorbike hit an elephant.
Four years later some fruity young lady backpacker, fresh from Australia, recited the same story to me almost verbatim.5 -
Oh well.....that's a bummer......but how come I said it without having heard it myself.....pure chance I guess.......my bubble has certainly been burst.Chizz said:I have some disapppointing news, @SoundAsa£ - it was first used in print in 1973.
Legend in his own lunchtime.
Errrrm.......thanks chizz.......I think!1 -
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It.Chizz said:
Forgotten what?North Lower Neil said:Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?
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1978 might be the first time you REMEMBER saying it. I reckon you probably first said it ten years before that. *taps side of nose*SoundAsa£ said:
Oh well.....that's a bummer......but how come I said it without having heard it myself.....pure chance I guess.......my bubble has certainly been burst.Chizz said:I have some disapppointing news, @SoundAsa£ - it was first used in print in 1973.
Legend in his own lunchtime.
Errrrm.......thanks chizz.......I think!0 -
I suppose that's possible.....I was certainly exploring various powders and potions of exotic proportions in those days......the mind can play funny games I guess......maybe that's the answer?North Lower Neil said:Isn't it more likely you'd heard it somewhere and all but forgotten it?
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I always thought John Lennon wrote "I'm just a legend in my own lunchtime" in one of his books ("In my own write" or "A Spaniard in the the works"), about 1965?
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Yes a couple are mine that people still use.
Remember you're only as old as the woman you feel.
Same shit different day (yeah I invented that)
Esqueeze me (instead of excuse me)
Wank you very much (also mine)
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"Yellow" when I answer the phone, really confuses the French0
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I invented - I'll look into it.1
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Let us know if you come up with anything.i_b_b_o_r_g said:Errr, I'll look into it
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I will look in to thisMrOneLung said:I invented - I'll look into it.
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I'm laying claim to that one...blackpool72 said:Pardew you are a cnut.
Don't know who started it tbf0