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The Origin of the Phrase ‘Goody Two-Shoes’
Interesting Literature Where did the expression ‘Goody Two-Shoes’ come from? Its history is, in part, a literary one… The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was a story, published anonymously in 1765, about an orphan girl who goes through life wearing only one shoe. However, this wasn’t where the expression ‘goody two-shoes’ originally came from: the phrase is […]