Talk:chew the scenery

World Wide Words lists an earlier reference. See http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-che2.htm ChrisB600 20:10, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Newspapers.com has this from 1877: "To be sure she does not howl and chew scenery, neither plays she part of a human tread-hammer, and yet it is a performance at once so effective and interesting as cannot fail to attract the attention of the unprejudiced." Mortee (talk) 12:35, 24 January 2019 (UTC)