Examples of using Documented instance in English and their translations into Serbian
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There is not a single documented instance of this ever happening.
To coin a phrase” popped up quite late in the game,at least the first known documented instance of it.
The first documented instance of the“singular” word“kudo” didn't pop up until 1926.
So when, specifically,is the first documented instance of this expression?
The first known documented instance of“red hand” is in the Scottish Acts of Parliament of James I, written in 1432.
While this probably wasn't really the first time this happened,it is the first documented instance of a single player holding concurrent, blindfolded matches.
The first documented instance appears in the 1589 work by Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations:“The Elephant….
In the UK“trump” has been another word for“an especially loud fart” since the early 15th century,with the first known documented instance appearing in 1425.
The first documented instance of this was suggested by British inventor Thomas Savery who wrote the following in a letter in 1702.
Given the nature of this work,it can be assumed that this variation was at least reasonable well-known in certain parts of the South previous to this documented instance.
Following that up, the next documented instance I could find of the general phrase in question was in the 1983 work The Black Nation.
So we can't reliably say that“pulls his leg” was really around in 1821, andit probably wasn't given the many decades between this instance of the phrase and the next documented instance.
However, there is at least one earlier documented instance, which seems to imply the expression was common several decades before 1859.
The first references of the practice of shortening statim to stat came to us from physiciansin the nineteenth century, with the first known documented instance of this appearing in Lessons on Prescriptions by W.H. Griffith(1875).
The first known documented instance of someone mentioning frequency hopping was Jonathan Zenneck in his book, Wireless Telegraphy, published in 1908.
Within a few years of this, the facial hair down the side of one's cheeks, rather than being called“mutton chops” as it was at the time in some regions,began being called a modification of“burnsides”,“sideburns”, with the first documented instance of this being in 1887.
The first documented instance of the expression morphing from“red hand” to“red handed” was in the early 19th century work Ivanhoe, written by Sir Walter Scott.
That same year, in a little obscure work called Southern Words and Sayings, the first documented instance of incorporating“fat lady” to the phrase occurred where it states,“Church ain't out'till the fat lady sings.”.
The first documented instance of“tarnation” was in Royall Tyler's 1790 play Contrast, where the character Jonathan uses it three times(along with the word“tarnal”).
However, this seems unlikely considering the word“Yankee” didn't come along until years after Cromwell,with the first known documented instance appearing in 1683- used by Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam(today's New York) to disparage their English colonist neighbors in Connecticut.
The first known documented instance of it being called“Bloody Mary” didn't occur until 1939 in an article in the Chicago Tribune, written by Walter Winchell.
While many(perhaps even most) shoemakers most likely had long been using barleycorn units as a factor in their sizing systems,it wouldn't be until 1856 when we get the first known hard documented instance of a 1/3 inch increments in a shoe sizing system, mentioned in The Illustrated Handbook of the Foot by Londoner Robert Gardiner.
That said, while there's no known documented instance of crocodiles intentionally being put into moats, we do know of at least one castle that had(and has, in fact) a moat full of bears….
At some point within the next century, this sense of the word spread to being used by non-thieves as referring to money given as a bonus for service rendered,with the first documented instance of this definition popping up in 1706 in the George Farquhar play, The Beaux Stratagem,“Then I, Sir, tips me the Verger with half a Crown…”.
The first documented instance of this term was in a patent application filed in April of 1861 in France for a steam engine powered helicopter, invented by Gabriel de La Landelle.
While it seems probable that this wasn't the first time someone out there uttered the words“blonde bombshell”(those two words fitting together so nicely),this does appear to be the first documented instance of it with, of course, the first actress to be labeled such being the lovely Jean Harlow, who incidentally died at the tender age of 26.
The first documented instance of the character being called Tom didn't occur until June 11, 1773, when the Coventry annals mention the aforementioned wig and paint for the character's effigy.
While it seems probable that this wasn't the first time someone out there uttered the words“blonde bombshell”(those two words fitting together so nicely),this does appear to be the first documented instance of it with, of course, the first actress to be labeled such being the lovely Jean Harlow, who incidentally died at the tender age of 26(more in the Bonus Facts below).
The first known documented instance of the tune and the words“Yankee” and“doodle dandy” being put together in the same song, it seems, was around the 1750s during the French and Indian War.
During the course of our research,we were even able to find a documented instance of a guy with red/green CVD being able to see properly again after(accidentally) smashing his face into the floor.