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'Unacustomed as I am to Public Speaking ....' Origin and completion please .
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think this is more a clich� than a saying, and there's no completion - the speaker just goes on to make their speech, presentation or whatever. The phrase clearly goes back a long way; one of its most famous usages was in one of Winston Churchill's earliest speeches in 1897, when he referred to it as a "well worn and time honoured apology".