# expression: "yea high"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 8, 2013, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/expression-yea-high/665697 "2013-08-08T12:51:07Z")\
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> [@Francis\_Vaughan](#):
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> I checked my (printed) copy of the OED, and it cites the Dictionary of American Slang 1960 edition as the first use in print.

Thing is, I would not expect that phrase to be very useful when written down, so I’d expect it would probably predate the first print citing by a longer time than usual.

Still, that is much later than I thought as well. It seems to have been quite easily adopted by my grandfather’s generation. I find that most of the stuff he says that sounds weird is usually pretty old.

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