[PW] Anachronisms

[JT Thompson]

>Question 2:  Although "clueless" as a word dates at least to 1743, using
>"no clue" to mean "I'm baffled" strikes my ear as a distinctly 1990's
>trope.  I feel about it the same way I felt when the Leonardo DiCaprio
>character in TITANIC, early on, said "Hey, I'm involved" -- nobody would
>have said that, in that context, in 1912.  Anybody disagree?

"The police have a clue" was a late 19th-century cliche, equivalent 
to "helping the police with their inquiries" today.