"Right Stuff" Not in OED
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Apr 4 18:56:24 UTC 2007
On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> We are planning an entry for this. It seems that the first
> example we have of this sense is from 1864. (We have an 1825
> example of the slang sense 'money'.)
Harper's seems to have an 1856 occurrence. I'll post the details in
a later message.
Fred Shapiro
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