origin of ‘to know where the bodies are buried’

31st May 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

‘to know where the bodies are buried’: to have personal knowledge of the secrets or confidential affairs of an organisation or individual—USA, 1928, as ‘to know where the body is buried’

origin of ‘the end of civilization as we know it’

17th Apr 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

first recorded in the United Kingdom in 1914, with reference to the civilizational implication of the German invasion of Belgium at the beginning of World War One; therefore, not first used by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941)

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origin of ‘to know where the bodies are buried’

origin of ‘the end of civilization as we know it’