Elvis has left the building

"This has become an ubiquitous catchphrase that only began to take off in the early 1980s, some years after the singer's premature death in 1977, aged 42. The catchphrase now enjoys multi-usage in many different contexts, when something or other needs to be said with finality. Sports commentators, for example, sometimes use it as an exclamation when a home-run has been hit into the crowd, or when a cricket ball has been struck out of the stadium. It is also frequently used when someone has left a meeting or left the premises. When a large Australian Rules footballer jumped on and flattened a much smaller player, and then got off him, the Australian TV commentator inverted the catchphrase by saying, 'The building has just left Elvis.' It was first said as a statement of fact on 15 December 1956 at an Elvis Presley concert at Shreveport, Louisiana, by Horace Logan who announced to the audience, 'Elvis has left the building' because the audience was screaming for the singer's return for an encore, which was not going to happen. After that, the same words were often used at Presley concerts to quieten audiences calling for the singer's return on stage."