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Default Apr 18, 2008 at 03:17 PM
 
It's actually Keats: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/19200.html

My stepmother would say it about a lengthy or difficult activity finished and done well, the result; and, by default, if you had participated in that activity, you were included in the praise.

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