Idiom "sweat bullets"-----influence of German?

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sun Sep 3 18:03:51 UTC 2006


On 9/3/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>   I have never encountered *"to shit bullets."

Cassell's dates it to the 1940s, FWIW. "Piss bullets" is also given. (Ouch.)


--Ben Zimmer

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