Eli Feldblum
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

Well, not really. The shorter saying actually predates the longer version. Google’s Ngram Viewer has examples going back to the early 19th century, and you can find scanned instances of the quote in Google Books from as early as 1856. There’s an argument to be made that the phrase dates back to old English, as “Good wits doe jumpe,” in 1618.

Those same sources will show that the second half of that qoute is far more recent, and primarily a British construct. It’s fun to answer, but people have actually been using this one correctly.

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