[Ads-l] Drop dead!

[Jonathan Lighter]

1938: OED

1914 George Randolph Chester _A Tale of Red Roses_ (Indianapolis:
Bobbs-Merrill) 11: Slip him a five-spot, but tell him to drop dead outside.
Don't buy him a drink, and don't let him back to see the chief.

1929 _San Jose Evening News_ (June 3) II 1: If you come across the man
described in this letter, ask him to drop dead.

1935 _Evening Star_ (Washington, D.C.) (July 29) A-2: Tell him to drop dead
with our compliments.


JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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