"flying fuck"

[Scot LaFaive]

>I know the whole thing of looking things up in the OED is somewhat out of favor

I would LOVE to look things up in the OED...too bad I can't afford to :(

Scot

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:01:31AM -0400, Sam Clements wrote:
> > Newspaperarchive has from 1952 a cite for "take a flying jump at a rolling
> > doughnut" and from 1972 "take a flying leap at a rolling doughnut."  So the
> > expression no doubt goes back a ways, not that we'll find "flying fuck" in
> > print very easily.
>
> I know the whole thing of looking things up in the OED is
> somewhat out of favor, but I do want to point out that in our
> latest update, we published a 1938 example from John O'Hara of
> "take a flying fuck at a galloping rooster".
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
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