# Phrase Origin:  Other than that Mrs Lincoln..

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**Created:** [February 17, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phrase-origin-other-than-that-mrs-lincoln/290617 "2005-02-17T23:49:26Z")\
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> Surely this in an invention, correct,

Yes, there’s no suggestion anyone actually said that to her.

I first heard this as an example of a form of wordplay called Gruesomes, IIRC in a reader competition in the New Statesman newspaper, but I can’t find any reference to it on their site - you probably have to subscribe to get older stuff like that.

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