Where did the phrase “the opera ain over till the fat lady sings” originate?
Dan Cook, sports broadcaster and writer for the San Antonio Express, said this during a TV newscast in April 1978, after the first basketball playoff game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets. He said this to illustrate the fact that although the Spurs had won once, the series was not over yet. Source: Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service, 1989, p.341, Suzy Platt, 808.
