For other uses, see Tell It to the Marines (disambiguation).
"Tell it to the Marines" is an English-language idiom, originally with reference to Britain's Royal Marines, connoting that the person addressed is not to be believed. The phrase is an anapodoton – the full phrase is "tell it to the marines because the sailors won't believe you", but only the first clause is usually given, standing for the whole. The idiom depends on its implication that marines, unlike the speaker, will gullibly believe nonsense.
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"Tell that totheMarines" is a 1918 song, written during World War I. Jean Schwartz and Al Jolson composed the music; Harold Atteridge wrote the lyrics...
Nancy. In 1987, he played Trevor in the Hi De Hi episode "TellIttotheMarines". Benson appears as a policeman in the video for Goldie Looking Chain's...
including at the Royal Court, the Old Vic and the National Theatre. On television, he starred in the 1959–60 sitcom TellIttotheMarines. In 1966, Hines...
Comics TellIttotheMarines #1-16 changes publisher to I.W. Enterprises in 1964, also see TellIttotheMarines Super - Toby Press U.S. Marines in Action...
distributed by the independent Mascot Pictures. It was the final film acting role of Haines who had a major success in the 1928 film TellittotheMarines. A brash...
Pyle, U.S.M.C.. A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse in TellIttotheMarines starring Lon Chaney. This...
tough-as-nails marine drill instructor in TellIttotheMarines (1926), one of his favorite films, earned him the affection of theMarine Corps, who made...
in Swat the Spy (1918), TellIttotheMarines (1918), and Smiles (1919). Jane and Katherine continued performing in vaudeville throughout the 1920s and...
Jannings – (Germany) TellIttotheMarines, directed by George W. Hill, starring Lon Chaney, Eleanor Boardman and William Haines The Temptress, directed...
in 1934 with Mascot Pictures, Young and Beautiful and TheMarines Are Coming. Haines continued to receive offers for film roles. During production of Sunset...
action in "TellIttotheMarines" style. U.S. Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant James O'Hearn (Burt Lancaster) is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for...
George W. Hill, who is the cinematographer, later directed classic films at MGM like TellIttotheMarines (1926) and The Big House (1930). As described...
such as the 15-issue TellIttotheMarines and the six-issue Monty Hall of the U.S. Marines (no relation tothe game-show host); the genre-evident Great...
2022. Rohter, Larry (14 October 1996). "No Thanks! And You Can TellIttotheMarines". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 30 June 2022. "Comfort...