Looking for origin of sentence "Yep, it's a XY, all right!"

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Just saw an episode title (Legacies, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14178112/?ref_=tt_eps_cu_n) called "Yup, It's a Leprechaun, All Right".
This reminded me of an old game I used to play, where you click on a cow and it says "Yep, it's a cow, all right".
This kind of sentence seems to be used prety often, so I was wondering if it is maybe a reference to some famous quote I don't know that native speakers maybe all know?

Frederique · Answer

Google-fu:

The cow sentence is using "that's" instead of "it's".
We can set a wildcard for the object.
We can add a filter "before:1994".

"Yep, that's a * all right" before:1994
We get only one result:
"Yep. That’s a beach all right.”
Guess you can improve from here.

Greybeard · Answer

so I was wondering if it is maybe a reference to some famous quote

It is a perfectly ordinary collocation. Your question is rather like asking for the origin of "It's a cow, isn't it?' originated.
OED:
A. all right: adv.
1. Used as an intensifier at the end of a sentence or clause: certainly, indeed.

a1413  (▸c1385)    G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 99   Criseyde was þis lady name al right.

And I am sure that Chaucer was not the first to use it.

Looking for origin of sentence "Yep, it's a XY, all right!"

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