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Anonymous ID: 69297c July 1, 2024, 10:02 a.m. No.21120995   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1001 >>1007

Winning…..grammatical tense important here

Go "from zero to hero", usage and origin

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/341218/ddg#341221

 

Regarding who made "from zero to hero" popular during the 90s.

 

This phrase was used as the tagline of the 1994 movie The Mask, starring Jim Carrey.

 

The tagline is visible in this movie poster:

 

It is also featured prominently on lots of The Mask merchandise, evinced by this Google image search. As you can see, it is featured prominently below the title on all sorts of toys and copies of the film.

 

The phrase is not, however, actually uttered in the film, evidenced by this script.

 

This film was very successful, with Wikipedia observing that it was "the second-highest grossing superhero movie at that time, behind Batman".

 

Perhaps the popularity of this film had to do with the increased usage of the expression in the 90s. Two of the Google Books results from 1991-1997, which are used in plotting the ngram, actually reference

 

 

-$4 is not winning

Anonymous ID: 69297c July 1, 2024, 10:49 a.m. No.21121308   🗄️.is 🔗kun

It depends how long the electricity is off for and the temperature that day. If its only out for an hour or so, students are usually kept at school, if its longer, then they may be sent home. Schools have emergency contact details for students and usually ring parents to come and pick up their child.

Oct 31, 2019