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“Bah! Humbug!”

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Scrooge uses the word to dismiss everything the Christmas season asks of him, and Dickens built the novella around a man whose vocabulary for other people is one long sneer. The phrase has outlived the book as the standard English expression for refusing to be festive on principle.

Source: A Christmas Carol

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