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“He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.”
The Whistle (November, 1779); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
1770s
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“If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.”
Algernon Sidney
(1623–1683) British politician and political theorist
On being told that part of his sentence had been remitted — that he would merely be executed, but his estate would remain intact, quoted in Joe Miller's Jests (1739) http://books.google.com/books?id=_CbolkOxjEEC&pg=PA6&vq=algernoon+sidney, p. 6.
“Surprising news from New York, the whistle-blower had his whistle blown!”
Amy Poehler
(1971) American actress
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Sigmund Freud
(1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
The Problem of Anxiety (1925)
1920s
“The Schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.”
Part I, line 58. Compare: "Whistling to keep myself from being afraid", John Dryden, Amphitryon Act iii, scene 1.
The Grave (1743)
Stephen Vincent Benét
(1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Young Adventure (1918), Winged Man
“That’s Carlos?” Phineas lowered his sword and whistled under his breath. “Hello, kitty.”
Kerrelyn Sparks
(1955) American writer
Source: All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
“He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.”
Oscar Levant
(1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
On Sigmund Romberg, as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974) by Howard Dietz, p. 61
“He trudged along unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 84-85.