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

[Laurence Horn]

>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.
>
And its alliterative counterpart, "tough titties".

L