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“Great Scott!”(exclamation)

"Great Scott!" is an exclamation of surprise or amazement that was popular in the 19th century. The origin is unclear, but "Scott" is used in a similar way to the German…

“Great trade! Who’d we get?”

Philadelphia Phillies baseball player Lenny Dykstra was told, in December 1991, that teammate Von Hayes had been traded. Dykstra said: "Hey, that's a great trade, who did we get?"…

“Greed is good”

"Greed is good" became popular from a 1986 speech by financier Ivan Boesky and the movie Wall Street (1987), but neither source used the exact line. Boesky, giving the commencement speech…