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Where does the expression 'softly softly catchy monkey' come from?
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Most online information says the phrase is an old English proverb, but many other posts identify the originator (in England) as founder of the Boy Scouts, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, who picked up the phrase while he was in Ghana with the Ashanti. 'If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, but under the circumstances it is a little "wearing." But our motto is the old West Coast proverb, "Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey"; in other words, "Don't flurry; patience gains the day." It was in joke suggested as a maxim for our levy of softly-sneaking scouts, but we came to adopt it as our guiding principle, and I do not believe that a man acting on any other principle could organize a native levy on the West Coast-and live.'
"Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey" is a slogan on a placard on Sir Charles Murchison's desk in London Scotland Yard. 1938 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation movie, "Mysterious Mr. Moto" staring Peter Lorre, written by:
Norman Foster writer
Philip MacDonald writer
John P. Marquand story
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Where does the expression 'softly softly catchy monkey' come?
Most online information says the phrase is an old English proverb, but many other posts identify the originator (in England) as founder of the Boy Scouts, Lord Robert Baden-Powell, who picked up the phrase while he was in Ghana with the Ashanti. 'If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, but under the circumstances it is a little "wearing." But our motto is the old West Coast proverb, "Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey"; in other words, "Don't flurry; patience gains the day." It was in joke suggested as a maxim for our levy of softly-sneaking scouts, but we came to adopt it as our guiding principle, and I do not believe that a man acting on any other principle could organize a native levy on the West Coast-and live.' "Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey" is a slogan on a placard on Sir Charles Murchison's desk in London Scotland Yard. 1938 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation movie, "Mysterious Mr. Moto" staring Peter Lorre, written by: Norman Foster writer Philip MacDonald writer John P. Marquand story
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