"От колыбели до могилы"

[lapsa]

Терниев опубликовал вот такую книжку 1877 года:
А вот тут пишут, что выражение появилось в 1940-х:
In fact the phrase “from cradle to grave” first appeared as a front-page headline in the Daily Mirror on 2 December 1942, and it was first used (and approvingly so) in a radio broadcast in March 1943 titled ‘After the War’, delivered by the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, a Conservative. 
Я раньше думала, что это вообще что-то религиозное.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Mind you, Churchill gets credited foe a lot of phrases which are actually much older. It's also credited to Edward Bellamy in his dystopian novel, 'Looking Backward' (New York: Modern Library, 1917, p. 70) so still 20th century

[lapsa]

Now I wonder when it actually appeared!