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

[Sam Clements]

Jon,

Proquest yields an 1876 cite fromm the Atlanta Constitution using "tough
luck" just the way we understand it today.

sam

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From: "Jonathan Lighter" <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:59 AM
Subject: antedatings: "tough luck," "oohs and ahs"


> 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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