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

Mark A. Mandel mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Tue Jul 5 14:22:09 UTC 2005


Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> sez:
>>>
 Thanks, Sam.  But nowadays it's more often used sarcastically as an
interjection than as a simple synonym for "hard luck." (In the '50s even
that had been mostly supplanted by the sarcastic use of "tough!" all by
itself.)
 <<<

Also "tough sh*t", at least in the 60s.


-- Mark A. Mandel



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