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Top of the morning

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Phrase
  1. 1
    A generic, cheerful greeting said to someone in the morning. Ireland, New-England, archaic, humorous, idiomatic, sometimes

Etymology

A working-class phrase once popular throughout the British Isles, possibly in reference to cream rising in milk. It has been revived into popular consciousness, and is associated with Irishmen, by the film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959).

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