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What phrase did Sherlock Holmes not say?

The phrase "Elementary, Watson!", which we used to associate with Sherlock Holmes, never occurs in the original books of Arthur Conan Doyle. It was invented in one of the theatrical productions based on books about Holmes, from where the phrase migrated to films. Most likely, the source of the phrase was the detective's one-word answer "Elementary" in the story "The Hunchback" - the only instance of Holmes uttering this word in the entire bibliography.

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