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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Both these come from the novel _Bill Truetell_, by George H. Brennan (Chicago: McClurg, 1909).

_tough luck_ (OED 1912) :

You've been against a lot of tough luck." (p. 272)

_oohs and ahs_  (OED, from a British source, 1930; it doesn't list the form with the spelling "ohs," as here) :

"A chorus of 'ohs' and 'ahs' went up from the admiring Fort Bensonians."

JL

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