"Bitch on heels" (and "Hell on wheels")
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BITCH ON HEELS--757 Google hits
BITCH IN HEELS--464 Google hits
HELL ON WHEELS--694,000 Google hits
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The soap "All My Children" has an autistic character in it. One star of the
show has an autistic son. On Sunday, I went to an autistic fundraiser that
featured five "All My Children" stars.
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My wife loves these things, and I was watching one, and, somehow, "bitch on
heels" was mentioned in the soap.
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(OED)
e. hell on wheels: someone or something regarded as resembling hell; also
attrib. or quasi-adj.
1843 Quincy (Ill.) Herald 10 Mar. 1/4 Hell-upon-Wheels!..the most appropria
te name for that craft [sc. a steam-boat]. 1868 _S. BOWLES_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-b3.html#s-bowles) in F. L. Paxson Hist. Amer.
Frontier (1924) lii. 497 ‘Hell on Wheels’ was the appropriate name that Samuel
Bowles of the Springfield Republican bestowed upon the town he visited in
1868. 1897 _P. WARUNG_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-w.html#p-warung)
Tales of Old Regime 50 To look up an' know heaven's above, an' not the roof
of a hell-on-wheelsoh, that'll be grand! 1945 _WYNDHAM LEWIS_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-l.html#wyndham-lewis) Let. 13 Mar. (1963) 381 We
learn here that the ‘Hell-on-wheels’ outfit has reached the Elbe. Hooray!
1966 J. PEARL Crucifixion P. McCabe (1967) ii. 24 He's hell on wheels on
Monday mornings. 1968 _S. CHALLIS_
(http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-c2.html#s-challis) Death on Quiet Beach xii. 174 You don't pull any imitation
disease over the immigration doctors. Those guys are hell on wheels.
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(GOOGLE GROUPS)
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_The Year of the Woman_
(http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.cinema-l/browse_thread/thread/d65b4cc803c40b9a/0e6350c0511673fa?lnk=st&q="bitch+on+heel
s"&rnum=24&hl=en#0e6350c0511673fa)
... her. Paglia, a postfeminist bitch on heels, is a staunch defender of the
film. "Woman is the bitch goddess of the universe! _Basic ...
_bit.listserv.cinema-l_
(http://groups.google.com/group/bit.listserv.cinema-l?lnk=sg&hl=en) - Mar 31 1993, 10:17 pm by Jim Courier Express (Yee, Eugene)
- 10 messages - 8 authors
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(GOOGLE)
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_How to become a fashion editor_
(http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashioneditor/thejob.html)
Fashion magazines are typically estrogen-heavy environments, and things can
get nasty and competitive faster than you can say "Bitch on heels. ...
www.fashion.net/howto/fashioneditor/thejob.html - 11k - _Cached_
(http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:-mKgnJvmTMQJ:www.fashion.net/howto/fashioneditor/thej
ob.html+"bitch+on+heels"&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8) - _Similar
pages_
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_SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR_
(http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/wsdb/courses/398X.html) “Bitch on Heels: Confessions of a Pop Culture Junkie.” In Bust
(Eds.). Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller. New York: Penguin, 1999. Marshment,
Margaret. ...
artsandscience.concordia.ca/wsdb/courses/398X.html - 11k - _Cached_
(http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:EmtZb87a0s4J:artsandscience.concordia.ca/wsdb/cour
ses/398X.html+"bitch+on+heels"&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&ie=UTF-8) - _Similar
pages_
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