antedatings: "tough luck," "oohs and ahs"

[Mullins, Bill]

Apparently my fourth grade classmates were not logicians . . .

> This sounds like a paradox.  What can be good about tough luck?
>
> JL
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> "Mullins, Bill" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:

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> >> And its alliterative counterpart, "tough titties".
> >
> >Extended version, from Nashville, TN, ca 1972: "Tough titty,
> >said the kitty, but the milk's still good."