Antedating of "hate someone's guts"

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 5 13:42:29 UTC 2013


HDAS 1901: "I hate his intestines."

(_Guts_ being regarded in that far-off age as rather vulgar.)

JL


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "hate someone's guts" (Not in OED; New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and
> Unconventional English: 1918)
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> _Within The Law_ was a Broadway production in 1912, written by Bayard
> Veiller. Here's an extract from the book of the 1913 script "by Marvin Dana
> from the play of Bayard Veiller":
>
> [BEGIN EXTRACT]
> "Was there any bad feeling between you and Eddie Griggs?"
>
> Garson's reply was explicit.
>
> "Never till that very minute. Then, I learned the truth about what he'd
> framed up with you." The speaker's voice reverted to its former fierceness
> in recollection, of the treachery of one whom he had trusted.
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> "He was a stool-pigeon, and I hated his guts! That's all," he concluded,
> with brutal candor.
> [END EXTRACT]
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> Read online: http://archive.org/details/withinthelaw00danarich
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> Hugo
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