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what/where/who coined the phrase "murder she wrote"

i know that show it was the longest running detective show, but people use it in everyday life and I just want to know what it means.
 
Originally posted by: kermalou
i know that show it was the longest running detective show, but people use it in everyday life and I just want to know what it means.
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I'd guess it's a reference to the TV show kermalou 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Raincity
The saying has been around longer than the TV show.
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Any links Raincity? I only knew the "catch phrase" from the TV show 😱
 
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: Raincity
The saying has been around longer than the TV show.
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Any links Raincity? I only knew the "catch phrase" from the TV show 😱
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You kids, I guess if you can not Google it, it does not exist. Ever heard the phrase "thats all she wrote"
 
Originally posted by: kermalou
i know that show it was the longest running detective show, but people use it in everyday life and I just want to know what it means.
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they do? never heard it except in refernece to the TV show.
 
Ever heard the phrase "thats all she wrote"

What does that phrase have to do with "murder she wrote"?
 
then maybe its "thats all she wrote"??

Arghhh! Are you looking for the origin of "murder she wrote" or "that's all she wrote"? 😕
Providing help is difficult when no one knows what you're looking for. 🙂
 
worst show to ever appear on a television screen. hands down.

sorry..I just had to get that out.. I can't answer your question.
 
Originally posted by: allisolm
Ever heard the phrase "thats all she wrote"

What does that phrase have to do with "murder she wrote"?
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Nothing.

The Angela Lansbury character in the TV show Murder, She Wrote was based on the prolific English detective novelist Agatha Christie's murder solving biddy Miss Marple.

Christie wrote 17 novels starring Miss Marple. The first was called Murder At the Vicarage and the last, Sleeping Murder. In all of them, she solved murders. A 1961 play based on one of her Miss Marple books was called Muder, She Said. Sensing a theme?

The phrase "Murder, She Wrote" has no intrinsic meaning. People who think it does are misinformed. People who hear other people use it and think it has some a priori meaning are both misinformed and gullible.

"That's all she wrote" means, roughly, "it's over". "Murder, she wrote" means nothing.

That's all she wrote.
 
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