more TV lingo

[victor steinbok]

I also wonder if "Don't shit on the world--if the world shits back on
you, you'll drown!" (also used with "spit") falls under

>  2. trans. To void as excrement. lit. and fig.

VS-)

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:25 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unrelated to Archer, but I noticed that OED has "shit a brick" (be
> frightened or worried). I've always heard that as "shit bricks" and
> extending to "stressed" or "angry" and almost always in progressive.
> ("I told him what happened. He was shitting bricks."; "She went to
> Canada without telling her parents. They must be shitting bricks
> now.")
>
> VS-)
>

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