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Kilroy was here
This term is used in the graffiti by the US army to show that they had
been there and moved on.
A site visitor emailed this:
Saw your idiom website. Pretty cool. The one about Kilroy was a little off. Kilroy was actually a goods inspector for the army and that was his signature way of marking something as "inspected."
Another site visitor emailed this:
Did you know that Kilroy was an actual person, an inspector at the Naval Shipyards in Maryland during WWII. His job was to count rivets, he counted thousands a day, in order to keep track of what he had counted and so they would not be counted again by another person he would write Kilroy was here. Now later on when these ships were full of men headed for war, they found that Kilroy had already been there, it made them feel better that they weren't the first, Kilroy had gone on ahead. Now if the inspectors name had been Bob "bob was here" it probably wouldn't have caught on. The accompaning cartoon came later.
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