Unrecorded cuss formation

[Jonathan Lighter]

A friend reports that her mother, from Harlan, Ky., never ever uses foul language.

  The exception was when she was trying to get her sewing machine to operate properly during the 1950s.  On those occasions she could be heard to mutter, frequently, "Shit to the devil!"

  JL


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