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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Stephen King uses "He's deader'n a shit-bug", "King Shit of Turd
Mountain," "eat shit" (meaning to put up with a bad situation), "doesn't
know shit from Shinola," "shot/shoot the shit" (meaning talked
aimlessly), "in deep shit", "sack of shit" (meaning a contemptible
person), "didn't own jack-shit", "slick as shit through a goose", "holy
shit" and "shit-fire!" (exclamatory), "sure as shit", "wouldn't say shit
if he had a mouthful" and more in _The Stand_.

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> Has anyone mentioned shit out of luck, shitstorm or shitload? Or how
about
> "Are you shitting me?" "Nope, I shit you not". I don't have access to
OED,
> so can't check them out.
> DAD
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> OED has shit-eating grin and shit-eater grin.
>
> But it's missing "built like a brick shithouse".
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> VS-)
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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Laurence Horn
> <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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> > On Sep 23, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote [in part]:
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> > > The HDAS files have enough on this word to make a book.
> > >
> > > I've heard of "shit-scared," but never "shit-happy."
> >
> >
> > Well, there's always the "shit-faced grin", although that doesn't
connote
> > pure unadulterated joy.  For another positive locution:  I once told
a
> > girlfriend her eyes were browner than shit.  She quite properly took
it as
> a
> > compliment.
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> > LH
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