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Old 11-04-2009, 04:01 PM   #397
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Default Re: Cigars in Cinema

This has got to be relevant in some way...

"Close, but no cigar" is widely used to signal a near miss. The earliest instance of its use anyone has found is in the 1935 film Annie Oakley, which has the line "Close, Colonel, but no cigar!"
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