the story goes

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the story goes

  1. The story is usually depicted as follows.
    The story goes that they won the day.
    • 1978 April 8, Robert Chesley, “The Cat Burglar Returns”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
      James Kirkwood's play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! opened nearly three years ago on Broadway, and, so the story goes, was promptly killed by critics — presumably because of its gay material.

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