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newgirliesa | 09:32 Thu 18th Apr 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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What does the phrase All quiet on the Western Front mean?
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It originates in the First World War, when the opposing armies faced each other on 'fronts', i.e. lines of trenches or whatever.

In the 1920s, Erich Remarque, a German novelist, wrote Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), which was subsequently made into a masterly anti-war film. I suppose nowadays it's used loosely to mean 'nothing much happening'...

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