You were first a coiner and then a murderer, and you came to these parts because you thought you'd be welcome. |
But the analogy is, sadly, more apposite than its coiner may have realised. |
My earliest cite is from September, 2002, but I don't have the resources to find the original coiner of the phrase. |
I have few equals as a coiner, and if you should require a medal struck to give away for good behavior or the like, I think I could strike one to your satisfaction. |
Dyson, coiner of the lovely phrase about the non-transferability of genius, should know that. |
Up here in New York, another wise woman was surprised and delighted by the fuss down there in Washington: the coiner of the phrase, Suzanne Nossel. |