<P> The earliest confirmed publication is the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud in which a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying , `` Excuse me Mr. Quail , I ca n't stop ; I 've got to see a man about a dog . '' In a listing for a 1939 revival on the NBC Radio program America 's Lost Plays , Time magazine observed that the phrase was the play 's `` claim to fame '' . </P>
<P> The earliest confirmed publication is the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud in which a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying , `` Excuse me Mr. Quail , I ca n't stop ; I 've got to see a man about a dog . '' In a listing for a 1939 revival on the NBC Radio program America 's Lost Plays , Time magazine observed that the phrase was the play 's `` claim to fame '' . </P>
where does the expression going to see a man about a dog come from
where does the expression going to see a man about a dog come from
Flying Scud
Flying Scud