And how long has it been around? (Not Rome, the saying, you fool!)
An Italian builder? :o
It was an ancient Roman road worker named Unionious Laborum. He is now the patron saint of guys standing around leaning on shovels.
I think it was Leo Rosten who coined the phrase “Rome wasn’t burned in a day”, if that’s any help.
Seriously, “Rome was not built in a day” is an old saying that occurs in Heywood’s Collection in 1562, according to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
I did, circa 1983. If memory serves, my mom was jumping down my throat because I hadn’t mowed the lawn or something like that.
A couple of years later, I invented oral sex.
I’m also responsible for the dot-com crash, but that’s a different story.