The most iconic line in the story “A Christmas Carol”, written by Charles Dickens published in 1843, was Bahh humbug and it tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who undergoes a dramatic transformation after being visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
Ebenezer states that line after Scrooge's nephew, Fred, enters the counting house and wishes him a "Merry Christmas," Scrooge replies with a gruff: