See the link for more history and citations this is the kind of detailed investigation I love. Using an Australian expression, she says, “Been there, done that.” Tewes, who has just divorced, says she doesn’t plan to get married at this time.
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The following year, an Associated Press article about Lauren Tewes, one of the stars of the American television series The Love Boat, was published on 21 February 1982. I’ve tried everything else-I’ve handed out leaflets at factory gates-been there done that-the music is all that I can do and it’s all that I can do well. Our only form of statement is what we sing. The earliest use in print of the common wording of the catchphrase that I have found is in Tharunka, the student newspaper of the University of New South Wales, on 31 August 1981 in an interview with Michael Atkinson, a member of the folk music group Redgum: The venerable, admirable and conservative McGilvray (“He’s been there! He’s done that!”) has become so indispensable to the proper, sober, traditional wireless broadcasting of cricket in this country that to exploit him in this way is a lot like producing a jingle which asserts “The Church is not the same without Wojtyla.” Pascal Tréguer has found an Australian citation from a 13 December 1979 column by Ian Warden in the Canberra Times that refers to a song about Alan McGilvray, the Australian cricketer and cricket commentator on the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC): He first goes over the shorter “(I’ve) been there” (meaning ‘I’ve had experience’), then continues:īut the addition of done that is distinctly Australian in origin. Dave Wilton at Wordorigins has a Big List post about the phrase been there, done that, which has a surprisingly specific origin, Australia at the end of the ’70s.
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