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[Jonathan Lighter]

All but the first one (or maybe two) listed are in the apocryphal HDAS III.
(Most or all antedate King.)

Ask your favorite dictionary publisher for it today!

JL

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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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
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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]:
> > >
> > > > The HDAS files have enough on this word to make a book.
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> > > > 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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