<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains embedded lists that may be poorly defined, unverified or indiscriminate . Please help to clean it up to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . Where appropriate, incorporate items into the main body of the article . (April 2017) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article contains embedded lists that may be poorly defined, unverified or indiscriminate . Please help to clean it up to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . Where appropriate, incorporate items into the main body of the article . (April 2017) </Td> </Tr> <P> The phrase Anyone for tennis? is thought to have originated from George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Misalliance, in which Johnny Tarleton asks "Anybody on for a game of tennis?" This phrase is often used to typify a particular genre of drawing room comedy about the leisured upper class . </P> <P> This phrase has been used several times in popular culture, including by Daffy Duck in the cartoon shorts The Ducksters, Rabbit Fire, and Drip - Along Daffy, the song "Beautiful Girl" in the movie musical Singin' in the Rain, and as the title of a song by the British blues - rock band Cream . In episode 33 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a spoof of Sam Peckinpah's violent movies begins with a genteel lawn party; the line "I say, anyone for tennis?" is the ironic cue for an explosion of overblown, horrific violence . It is also mentioned in the popular 1975 song Patricia the Stripper by Chris de Burgh . </P>

Where did the phrase tennis anyone come from