popularization in personally i don't believe i heard this phrase before gran torino which uses the phrase prominently came out in the ageist attacks against john mccain on left wing websites in seemed to really popularize the phrase on the internet i notice that virtually none of this article's references about the actual phrase itself date back before this article's pre references seem to be about lawns in general not about the actual phrase this article itself did not exist prior to even though wikipedia was founded in if this phrase was common prior to i recommend adding some earlier references about the use of the phrase if it wasn't common before this article shouldn't be giving the false impression that it was common decades earlier