[Ads-l] pooched

[Laurence Horn]

It seems from perusing the many g-hits (184 actual, or “about 2460 results”) for “I’m pooched” that they, unlike the second-person case, involve a mongrel blend of “I’m pooped” with the meaning 'I’m screwed’, signifying a kind of hopeless exhaustion.  

LH


> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> GB has "You're pooched" from 2001.
> 
> JL
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 12:31 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> "Screwed."
>> 
>> Nicolle Wallace on _Deadline: White House_ yesterday:
>> 
>> "The second member of the Dowd-Cobb team [is] basically acknowledging
>> that, on obstruction, the President's pooched."
>> 
>> < screw the pooch (popularized by _The Right Stuff_) < fuck the dog
>> 
>> JL
>> --
>> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>> 
> 
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> -- 
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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