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Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

Walter Scott
Believe, Marine, Sailor
Redgauntlet vol. 2, ch. 7 (1824). The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs traces the expression "Tell it to the marines" back to 1805.
Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.