Goodnight Vienna...

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hope that was helpful.

nah

?! This was the #2 Google result for me:

Eric Partridge, "A Dictionary of Catch Phrases American and British," has an entry for it:
"good night, Vienna" comes from the title of a romantic operetta, 1932, book and lyrics by Eric Maschwitz, music by George Posford, the whole serving as a vehicle for Richard Tauber. 'Its main song was "Good night, Vienna" (you city of a million melodies)' (Ronald Pearsall, 1975). As a [catch phrase] it has been described by Cyril Whelan, 1975, as 'a pen-knife phrase, in that it can be put to a variety of different uses-often apparently contradictory. "If the officer catches us up to this, it's Good Night, Vienna, for the lot of us."-"So I met the girl. We had a few drinks. Back to her place, and Good Night, Vienna".' Its appeal and currency are due only to the fact that it's mildly pleasing to the tongue in a racy sort of way and bounces quite happily on the ear of the listener.

so it is. i have turned into someone who cannot use internets good over the last few months.

"Pen-knife phrase" is a bit of a winner as well.

What is the origin of the expression "pen-knife phrase"?

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