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Comment by tdb7893

10 months ago

As far as I can tell it probably is American, all the earliest mentions of it on Wikipedia are American.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line

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  • The British sitcom is far after the coinage and adoption of the phrase in the US. You’ve got the causality backwards.

  • You have access to Google, if you think Wikipedia is wrong you can find another source. Don't just pretend you know the etymology of the word better while presenting literally no evidence though please.