fan-hitting (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>
> Fit hit the shan:
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> Long Beach CA _Press Telegram_  9/20/1974 p. c-23 col 4
> [display ad for Carson Toyota] "EVEN THE SHAN OF ARABIA HAD A
> FIT OVER HIS NEW TOYOTA (THE FIT HIT THE SHAN)"
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>

Possibly earlier. It's hard to tell from Google Books, but it looks like
_The Journal of American Folklore_, Jan-Mar 1963, V 76 N 299 p 62 has "
. . .the Khan asked each man, "Where were you when the fit hit the
Shan?" "
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