fuck you money

[Karl Hagen]

Google Books turns up a passage in Clay Blair Jr., _The Board Room_
(1969), p. 294:

"But I don't care. I've got my fuck-you money."

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:02:10PM -0500, Darla Wells wrote:
>> I am looking for the origin of the expression "fuck you money." I found a
>> reference to Mike Royko:
>>
>> Kurson takes a blunter tack. "I like to talk about fuck-you money," he said,
>> quoting famed Chicago journalist Mike Royko. "Enough money so that if you
>> needed to, you could tell your boss, 'Fuck you,' and you wouldn't be eating
>> Alpo afterwards."
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> The earliest example I was able to find was 1975, Rust Hills
> writing in _Esquire_. Improvements to this would be most
> gratefully received.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED
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