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colk100 | 09:20 Wed 12th May 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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How did the phrase 'see you later alligator' come about?
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The word, 'alligator', was used as long ago as the 1930s in American slang to mean a fan of 'swing' music. It then reappeared in the mid 1950s as part of a song - by Bill Haley and the Comets, if memory serves me correctly - in the lines: "See you later, alligator...In a while, crocodile."
10:04 Wed 12th May 2004
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Click http://www.billhaley.co.uk/lyrics.htm for the words to the song I mentioned above.
10:08 Wed 12th May 2004
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Your showing your age Quizzie!
20:57 Wed 12th May 2004
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gawd I feel old.... that was one of my first records.
21:51 Wed 12th May 2004
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Not only 'showing my age', PG, but I have to confess that I was all but out of my teens by the time the 'Alligator' song came along! Cheers
06:45 Thu 13th May 2004

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