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

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Tough shit" was so big in WWII they had to abbreviate it to "T.S."

You could even "See the Chaplain, and get your T.S. card punched."

JL

"Mark A. Mandel" <mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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Jonathan Lighter 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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