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Thread #83812 Message #1542840
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
16-Aug-05 - 12:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Nobody Knows Where the Old Man Goes
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Nobody Knows Where the Old Man Goes
A good song. Surprised it isn't in Levy.
Trivia alert!
Charlotte Brontë- "I haven't got a clue." 1849, in the novel "Shirley."
Lighter (Dictionary of American Slang) notes that "clueless" in the sense of ignorant is found in the OED- 1943, Ward- Jackson, in "Piece of Cake."
It is probably older.