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I doubt you’ll have much luck finding an origin, as it’s a simple English statement, not an idiom: “A speech form or an expression of a given language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements, as in ‘keep tabs on.'” — TheFreeDictionary
