"Bitch on heels" (and "Hell on wheels")

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 3/28/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
>
> BITCH ON HEELS--757 Google hits
> BITCH IN HEELS--464 Google hits
> HELL ON WHEELS--694,000 Google hits

And let's not forget the transitional form, "bitch on wheels". OED2
has an early cite:

1958 M. DICKENS Man Overboard iv. 59 It was his wife. She's a bitch on
wheels, from what he tells me.


--Ben Zimmer

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