Etymology

look Ma, no hands

Today it means: Expresses victory in accomplishing something that can never be undone. Full definition →

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The story

From a young child's growing ability to ride a bicycle without the handlebars. Popularized and perhaps coined in a 1937 cartoon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.