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What is the origin of the word copycat?

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The origin of the idiom “copycat” comes from 19th century Maine, when Constance Cary Harrison wrote in her 1887 memoir Bar Harbor that “Our boys say you are a copy cat, if you write in anything that's been already printed.”

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