The corner of the marina that Hugo cleaned..

Although this pic is a bit abstract because it’s Abstract Thursday you can see it’s clear of rubbish. In the days before Hugo it would have been a mess of rubbish. The Victor Hugo bench overlooks this marina so he must be relieved to see it all cleaned up.
I hadn’t realised the significance of its name Hugo until someone pointed it out to me. And the. It was obvious. Doh!
Well it’s a single word not a phrase but it is interesting to see 2here it originated so it’s a bonus extra today.
Early recorded usages of the sound "d'oh" are in numerous episodes of the BBC Radio series It's That Man Again between 1945 and 1949, but the OxfordWords blog notes "Homer was responsible for popularising it as an exclamation of frustration."
I was born in 1949 so I may have heard a few episodes of It's That Man Again from my pram;-)

I was reading the online GuernseyPress this morning and the find the caption was Nineteen to dozen so this is my saying of the day…
While the exact origin of the phrase is unknown, it is often traced back to the Cornish beam engines of the Newcomen era in the 18th century. These engines could pump 19,000 gallons from a tin mile. All this from just 12 bushels of coal.

In speech, the phrase means someone who talks too fast or too much. That fits me to a T. So the 3rd origin today is…

It looks like there's no absolute consensus on this, but the generally-accepted best candidate is that it's a shortened version of "to a tittle." The word "tittle" refers to those tiny little additions you have to make when writing letters- things like the dot in "i" or "j," and I imagine the cross-stroke in "t" and "f ...