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- ↑ Soldiers’ Songs and Slang of the Great War, collected by Martin Pegler, ISBN 9781472804150, p. 123; an update of John Brophy and Eric Partridge's Songs and Slang of the British Soldier (1930)
- ↑ Partridge, Eric (1985). A dictionary of catch phrases: British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Beale, Paul. (2nd. ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 0203379950. OCLC 57445962.
- ↑ ""Old Soldiers Never Die" (Farewell Address to Congress)--General Douglas MacArthur (April 19, 1951) ", an essay at the Library of Congress
- ↑ "Old Soldiers Never Die", a University of Kent webpage
- ↑ Stanford, Chris (20 April 2018). "James Comey, Prince, 'Westworld': Your Friday Briefing". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
Little did that five-star American general know that he had just given rise to an army of so-called snowclones, a relatively new linguistic phenomenon that's tougher to explain than it is to use.
- ↑ Lucy Blackman, Have You Heard the One About: Aging, 2005, ISBN 0595370721
- ↑ ABC home video: Dark Days at the White House: The Watergate Scandal and the Resignation of President Richard M. Nixon
- ↑ "Sting Reopens Bataclan With 'Fragile,' Tribute to David Bowie and Prince". www.hollywoodreporter.com. 12 November 2016. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
