If An Elderly Farmer Was Being Urged By...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Given that it was USA-based and refers to shotguns, I had always imagined it to be from the days of the Wild West in the mid-19th century. But the earliest-recorded use of the phrase dates back only to 1929. By then, women had become vastly more independent of their parents, though the shame of illegitimacy still hung on for another 30 years or so, despite shotguns as such having become rather rarer!