My Postilion Has Been Struck By Lightning, Comments

August 30,1916 The British magazine Punch includes this item: 'An officer serving in the Balkans writes to say that he has just come across a Hungarian - English phrase - book which starts with the useful phrase, 'My postilion has been struck by lightning.' There have been thousands of subsequent mentions of this phrase in different phrasebooks in many languages. No one has yet to produce such a phrasebook, but many have apparently seen them.


My postilion has been struck by lightning,
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