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Fri Oct 3, 2025, 12:56 PM

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"Etymology
This has been said to refer to the Australian boxer Larry Foley (1849–1917), who never lost a fight. This is not likely as the earliest reference to the phrase is in a letter to the editor of the Illawarra Mercury in Wollongong, Australia in 1857.[1] In it the correspondent 'G U A' (probably Dr. George Underwood Alley, known for regularly corresponding with newspapers) writes '...we'll all live together, like Brown's cows, and be as happy as Larry.' "

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