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- etymology - Where do shenanigans come from? - English Language . . .
shenanigans Though now it is always used in the the plural, this Americanism for "mischief" or "trickery" was first recorded as shenanigan in 1855 in California I suspect that the citation in question involves a story from the California Herald cited in numerous Google Books periodicals, such as this one from the Merchants' Magazine and
- Whats the origin of the common phrase I call shenanigans?
"I call this shenanigans," Sen Ed Schrock of Elm Creek said of the opponents' amendment to LB701 I realize that you're looking for the specific phrase "I call shenanigans", but if you relax your criteria somewhat, you can go back even further For example, according to an anthology of Mark Twain's letters published in 1920, he once wrote:
- expressions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Shenanigans can have more sinister implications, however Some people use the term to describe confidence tricks and other deceptive activities which are linked more with wrongdoing than fun times The victims of these sorts of shenanigans may be embarrassed, humiliated, or injured, and they run the risk of losing money as well
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The two-word phrase "call shenanigans" yields no matches in a Google Books search through the year 2008, but a standard exact-phrase search for "I call shenanigans" on Google produces more than 1 8 million matches, so it's clearly a popular phrase
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