[Ads-l] Heard: _for days_, an intensifier

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1972 [US] B. Rodgers _Queens’ Vernacular_ 60: _days_ (exclam) affirmative,
> translated to mean you said it!
>

Based on a single published instance? That's weak.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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