Where did the expression"close but no cigar " come from?
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Answer:
carnival barkers would say that when a player got close to winning one of the rigged games.
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Good question, I don't know.
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Actually, it is from the mid 70's. Everytime the Celtics won a game Red (the coach) would light a cigar. It wasn't very often, but when they would lose, he would say "Close but no cigar!" and now you know, "The rest of the story"
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