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I first heard it at least as early as 1910. But also used by one person, either to herself (formerly) or to himself (as, frequently, nowadays), or to another, and meaning ‘I don’t very much want to find myself alone with him (or her)’: since c. 1930. Both, by an extension of the cliché. said. See: enough said; never let it be; never said; no more to be; nobody asked; nuff; stand always; that’s as well; well, you s.; what the soldier; you said; you’ve said; and: said he. In 1927 Collinson, in his invaluable book, recorded this example,

‘Do you like that?’ ‘No, said he frowning.’