I haven’t seen the show, but do they use it in a literal or a figurative sense?
I’m sure I heard the sports usage long before that, and ngram viewer indicates an initial peak in the 1940s, almost certainly from the sports usage.
Yeah. I’ve known “wheel house” as slang for your forte since I was a kid in the 1960s. Definitely not from Deadliest Catch.
In the first episode of The West Wing, Rob Lowe’s character has to explain the acronym “POTUS” to his date. While I’m sure Aaron Sorkin didn’t invent the term, I don’t recall hearing it before then, and I don’t think it was in general public use.
I first encountered POTUS in Christopher Buckley’s (yes, the son of William Buckley) 1986 novel The White House Mess.
“Kids, don’t try this at home” was, if not invented, then wildly popularized by the early reality (and I used that term loosely) TV show That’s Incredible.
This may not count, but “Houston, we have a problem” came from the Apollo 13 movie. What was really said was a little different. (I didn’t check to see if that is in the 200 or so posts before this).
Nope you’re first on Apollo 13. Here’s wiki’s take:
To blave. Which we all know means to bluff.
It would be inconceivable for me to believe that anybody not know where that phrase originates.
I have never heard of it. Where does it come from?
Princess Bride (bolding mine)
Does “failure is not an option” start here too?
I figured out that must be where it was from because of that, but I have to say I have never heard anyone use it otherwise. Princess-Bridisms I have heard in the wild include “Mostly dead” and “Have fun storming the castle!”
I’ve also heard “you keep using that word…” Sometimes with the rest of the quote. Always done with the accent.
And, “You killed my father. Prepare to die!”
“I am Spartacus!”
We are here to PUMP YOU UP
At one of my old corporate jobs, where management loved spouting inspirational catchphrases like that, we had a saying:
“Failure is not an option - It’s a requirement.”
There’s no crying in baseball !
When I lived in England for a period across the 80s and 90s there used to be a popular comedy show called Chucklevision.
The show starred real life brothers Paul and Barry Chuckle who were old school slapstick, vaudeville performers. It was very family friendly and based around them taking on a job in everyday society or setting off on an adventure for which they had neither the expertise or the tools to pull off so had to improvise.
They coined the phrase “To Me, To You” which became beloved in British pop culture. They’d work on a job for example carrying a mattress going down the stairs and the guy at the bottom would say “to me” and the guy at the top would reply “to you” and they would keep doing this until the guy at the bottom lost his step and fell. Or in some cases where they’d be working on a conveyer belt and go round in circles because they’d get their “to me’s” and “to you’s” mixed up.
The other recurring characters included a man who would almost always be the guy who was the guy at the top of the chain of command where they were employed. He didn’t have a name but was affectionately known by his catchphrase “No Slacking”.
Because every time he would brief them on their task he would end by menacingly warning/threatening “and remember NO SLACKING”.
You would have to watch the show to really understand the humor behind it. It’s a classic over there.