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There is also a critically acclaimed move with this title "[[The Last Hurrah]]", based upon a [[novel]] by American writer [[Edwin O'Connor]]. | There is also a critically acclaimed move with this title "[[The Last Hurrah]]", based upon a [[novel]] by American writer [[Edwin O'Connor]]. | ||
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| + | The earliest written citation of the noun phrase in Google Books was by British writer John Shipp (1784-1834). The name of the work was "Paddy and the French Cavalry", retelling an incident allegedly occuring at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] in a very short account in ''The Military Bijou or the Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack Being the Gleanings of Thirty-Three Years Active Service'' from 1831 (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 186. | ||
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| + | :"This was poor Paddy's ''last hurrah''; for scarce had the words died upon his lips, when a cannon shot poor warm-hearted Pat of that which a looks very queer without—his head." | ||
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The or A "Last Hurrah", used as a Noun, means a final appearance or effort, especially at the end of a career.
There is also a critically acclaimed move with this title "The Last Hurrah", based upon a novel by American writer Edwin O'Connor.
The earliest written citation of the noun phrase in Google Books was by British writer John Shipp (1784-1834). The name of the work was "Paddy and the French Cavalry", retelling an incident allegedly occuring at the Battle of Waterloo in a very short account in The Military Bijou or the Contents of a Soldier's Knapsack Being the Gleanings of Thirty-Three Years Active Service from 1831 (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co.), p. 186.
- "This was poor Paddy's last hurrah; for scarce had the words died upon his lips, when a cannon shot poor warm-hearted Pat of that which a looks very queer without—his head."