# What is the most commonly used phrase in English that came from a movie?

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> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> Buddy Holly wrote that song after seeing the western.

Did not know that. OK, then that one overtakes bucket list, if it comes from the movie and wasn’t a common phrase before then.

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