fuck you money

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Apr 17 17:36:00 UTC 2007


On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:02:10PM -0500, Darla Wells wrote:
> I am looking for the origin of the expression "fuck you money." I found a
> reference to Mike Royko:
>
> Kurson takes a blunter tack. "I like to talk about fuck-you money," he said,
> quoting famed Chicago journalist Mike Royko. "Enough money so that if you
> needed to, you could tell your boss, 'Fuck you,' and you wouldn't be eating
> Alpo afterwards."

The earliest example I was able to find was 1975, Rust Hills
writing in _Esquire_. Improvements to this would be most
gratefully received.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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