[Ads-l] Antedating of "Sad Sack" (Person Resembling Eponymous Comic-Strip Character)

[Shapiro, Fred]

sad sack (OED 1943)

1942 Yank 25 Nov. 20  You are now looking at a Sad Sack of McTurk.

Fred Shapiro

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