[Ads-l] when the shit hit the fan

[Jonathan Lighter]

HDAS archives have many exx. referring to WW2, but this euphemistic form
from Internet Archive is the earliest of any:

1945-46_C'est la Guerre!: 612th Graves Registration Company_ (N.p., n.d.)
46:  When things settled, each looked at the other as if to say, "Where
were you when the stuff hit the fan?"

JL

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