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Robert W. Burchfield, the longtime editor of the Oxford English Dictionary , treats the phrase with magisterial derision in The New Fowler's Modern English Usage (1996)--he dismisses it as "one of the ignoble clichés introduced into the language in the 20c.
Given the nature of the publishing business today, it is probably not at all surprising to see another usage book (bearing in mind that the Fowler is being updated by Robert Burchfield), though, if you believe all the foregoing palaver, no one will ever refer to it.
Burchfield, (Oxford University Press); A Reporter's Life , by Walter Cronkite (Knopf); Alias Grace , by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday); Whistle Down the Wind (National Theatre, Washington, D.C.).
Any cant word or phrase becomes tiresome, which perhaps accounts in part for Burchfield's impatience with at the end of the day . (The word parse , rapidly deployed in press conferences and commentary after President Clinton used an eyebrow-raising tense to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, went from inert silage to spent husk in a matter of hours.)
To lift from the latest Fowler's English Usage, (ed. R.W. Burchfield, Oxford, 1996 p. 227) a friend of my mother's is idiomatic, but a friend of the British Museum's is not.