yours truly

Recorded in the late 1700s as a closing in a letter. Since the mid-1800s for "I", "me", or "myself".^[1]

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yours truly

1. (idiomatic) Used to close a note or letter.

   Hypernym: valediction

   Coordinate terms: yours faithfully, yours sincerely

   Please write back soon! Yours truly, Alice.

• In British English, yours truly is reserved for informal correspondence. In more formal writing, yours sincerely or yours faithfully are preferred.

yours truly

1. (idiomatic, informal, humorous) I, me, or myself.

   This one was created by yours truly.

   • 1951, C.S. Forester (novel), James Agee (screenplay), The African Queen, spoken by Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart):

     Nobody in Africa, but yours truly, can get a good head of steam on the old African Queen.

   • 1972 August 2, Arthur Mason, “Ol’ Magic Fingers: Karloff Was ‘Nicest Gent of Them All’”, in Oregon Journal, Portland, Ore., →OCLC, section 2 (Home and Family), page 1, column 2:

     Vera introduced us, and Boris was interested to hear I was a masseur. He mentioned that he had gotten a massage several times a week when he was in Hollywood—so, before you could say “Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt,” yours truly offered the man who had made more people shiver and shake than any man alive a massage on the house.

• yours trulies

• valediction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• truly yours