Anyone for tennis?

Anyone for tennis?

The phrase "Anyone for tennis?" is thought to have originated from George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" in which Johnny Tarleton asks "Anybody on for a game of tennis?" [Bernard Shaw, George. 1914. "Misalliance".] , this phrase is often used to typify a particular genre of drawing room comedy and the upper class nature and activities of the characters portrayed within these.Fact|date=August 2008

"Anyone for Tennis" is the name given to a song by Eric Clapton and Martin Sharp, written in 1968 and issued as a single.

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