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Howardx | 17:23 Wed 31st Jan 2001 | Phrases & Sayings
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WHERE DID THE PHRASE "HOW MANY BEANS MAKE 5?" ORIGINATE? WHY?
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According to Nigel Rees in Phrases and Sayings, Miss Alice Lloyd was singing a music-hall song in November 1898 which contained these lines: 'You say you've never heard How many beans make five? It's time you knew a thing or two You don't know you're alive! ' The phrase was also recorded 12 years earlier and seems to come from the heyday of Victorian humour.
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