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This is one of those questions that probably has no decisive answer, especially since the phrase has probably changed its sense over the years. Nowadays it means that the person being addressed is out of contact with reality. In that sense it certainly dates back at least to the 1960s. But back in the 1940s Gerarld Kersh wrote a story called "The Copper Dahlia" in which the hero tries to contact a fleet of aliens approaching the Earth to bring happiness to everyone. So it could date back that far or even further.

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