ChatterBank0 min ago
Hello hello hello
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Where did this saying come from, aparrently the police used to say it all the time.. but i can't see how. Anyone have any ideas
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.In Agatha Christie's Miss Marple story, Body in Library, published in 1942, a character says, "Hallo, 'allo, 'allo, what's this?"
This is the earliest-recorded written use of the phrase you are asking about. Whether that was the very first time anyone did say these words and other writers of police tales just copied her or whether the police were already in the habit of saying that and Christie just copied them, I do not know!
This is the earliest-recorded written use of the phrase you are asking about. Whether that was the very first time anyone did say these words and other writers of police tales just copied her or whether the police were already in the habit of saying that and Christie just copied them, I do not know!
A bit of a google reveals that 2LO, the experimental radio station, was set up in London on May 11th 1922, after Archie and his indiscretions hit the scene. I presume 3LO came later still.
Perhaps some more googling on your own part, Dezzydora, might reveal a recorded use of the words that even predates PG Wodehouse's!
Perhaps some more googling on your own part, Dezzydora, might reveal a recorded use of the words that even predates PG Wodehouse's!