Everybody's Doing This Now
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Are only women doing it? Max Cryer explains: The genesis of ["everybody's doing it"] can be traced to a Mozart opera of 1790, commissioned by Emperor Joseph II of the Holy Roman Empire and said to be based on a much gossiped about real-life incident in Vienna. Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte entitled the story Cosí Fan Tutte — which translates as 'Everybody's doing it' (though purists will point out that 'tutte' can be seen as the feminine of 'tutti', and thus only women are 'doing it').
( Who Said That First?: The Curious Origins of Common Words and Phrases, 2012) |
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An illustration of a strong woman who can carry a tune, from an 1896 issue of The Strand magazine. For Jonathan Caws-Elwitt. |
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Everybody's doing this now—even ghosts. From Rhyme? and Reason? by Lewis Carroll, 1884. The caption reads, "And swing yourself from side to side." (For Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.) |
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