"Break nasty" redux

[Wilson Gray]

The last time that I mentioned this, the point was that examples of it can
now easily be found through Googling. But there was still a problem for me.
Google had "break nasty _with_." I'm accustomed to using "break nasty
_on_." Now, there are examples of this latter to be found. The one that
corresponds closest to ca. 1963 use that I'm familiar with is

"In May, I _broke nasty on_ my OB, because I still wasn't getting pregnant."

Around the same time, maybe a couple of months later, I heard the "break
bad" cited in HDAS. So, who's to say, even anecdotally, that the use of one
antedates the use of the other? My personal preference is for "break nasty
(on)."

As might be expected, "break nasty" has acquired other meanings, over the
past half-century. "Kick ass" - do with excellence - seems to be the most
common.

"I felt like an all-star out there, today. I really _broke nasty_ on this
trail! Man, it felt so good!"

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- Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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