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It's all but certain that the phrase "since Hector was a pup" refers to the Hector of mythology, although it's officially classed as "American; origin uncertain." One source says that the expression might have become popularized in the 1920s when a lot of boys studied Greek and had dogs named Hector, but it's more likely that the expression is older, and that both it and the dog-naming fad relate to the story told by Euripides: Hector's mother, Hecuba, got turned into a dog for killing the murderer of her older son, Polydorus, so Hector by extension was a dog's son--a pup. Perhaps the original S.O.B.?
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