I generally associate the phrase from vague memories of college British history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_council
However just last year the phrase figured prominently in my mind since at the end of A Storm Of Swords the Imp kills his old man Tywin Lannister with a cross-bow while the latter is sitting on a stone privy in the Tower of the Hand.
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Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
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