| 单词 | like shit |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslike shit Phrases P1. up shit creek: in an unpleasant situation or awkward predicament; in trouble (cf. up the creek at creek n.1 2c). Also in elaborated form up shit creek without a paddle. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [phrase] > in a difficult position > in straits waterOE straitly steadc1400 need-stead?c1450 at the worst hand1490 in suds1575 lock1598 at a bad hand1640 in a wood1659 in bad bread1743 up a stump1829 in a tight (also awkward, bad, etc.) spot1851 up shit creek1868 in the cart1889 in the soup1889 out on a limb1897 in a spot1929 up the creek1941 consommé1957 1868 Ann. Rep. Secretary of War (U.S. House of Representatives, 40th Congr., 3rd Sess.) 469 Our men put old Lincoln up Shit creek, and we'll put old Dill up. 1925 E. Hemingway Let. 22 Apr. (2013) II. 322 The stuff is so tight and hard and everything hangs on everything else and it would all just be shot up shit creek. 1939 J. Dos Passos Adventures Young Man i. 46 They had a hard time finding their way through the woods... ‘Well, we're up shit creek without any paddle.’ 1956 N. Coward Diary 25 Mar. (2000) 314 Added to their discomfiture, Ford must have realized that they have nothing prepared for 5 May and that frankly they are up shit creek without a paddle. 1981 Private Eye 31 July 11/2 If they'd followed her this far up shit creek it's a long way to walk back. 1998 K. Lette Altar Ego xiii. 118 When feeling cheap and nasty, remind yourself that without infidelity, literature and opera would be up shit creek. 2009 H. Betts Loves me, loves me Knot 122 If Jenna really did turn out to be pregnant, he was up shit creek without the proverbial paddle. P2. to —— the shit out of (a person or thing): to —— (a person or thing) to an excessive or violent degree. Cf. to beat the living shit out of (a person or thing) at living adj. 9. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- 1886 App. Jrnl. House of Representatives Ohio 82 157 You get away from here, damn you, or I will knock the shit out of you. 1920 War Expenditures: Hearings before Subcomm. No. 3 of Comm. on Expend. War Dept. (U.S. House of Representatives, 66th Congr. 2nd Sess. Serial 4) III. 4050 God damn you, I beat the shit out of you, if you do a column right, unless I tell you. 1936 J. T. Farrell World I Never Made ix. 123 You're too young to know, but I'll tell you... But if you ever say I told you, I'll lam the shit out of you. 1953 S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March 170 He yelled ‘Next time I'll shoot the shit out of you!’ So we ran, and he threw rocks past us. 1966 L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 122 Let's beat the shit out of him. 1974 B. Broadfoot in P. Fussell Wartime (1989) 74 You'd be on sentry go, and he'd scare the shit out of you because there's nobody there and suddenly there he is. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die i. 10 I will show you the artist getting the shit kicked out of him for the sake of his art. 1987 J. Humphreys Rich in Love vi. 131 You aggravate the shit out of me. 2001 R. B. Parker Potshot (2002) 120 He used to ask me to come talk to the kids a few times, warn them to stay out of trouble... Bored the shit out of the kids. 2008 P. Conroy South of Broad 166 I've always felt bad that I didn't kick the shit out of you when you were a kid. P3. not to give a shit: not to care in the slightest. to give a shit: to care. Cf. not to give a fuck at fuck n. Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)] to put in no chaloir1477 not to care1490 to let the world wag (as it will)c1525 not to care a chip1556 to hang loose (to)1591 (to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632 not to careor matter a farthing1647 not to care a doit1660 (not) to care twopencea1744 not to give a curse (also damn)1763 not to care a dump1821 not to care beans1833 not to care a darn1840 not to give a darn1840 not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861 not to care (also give) a whoop1867 (to care) not a fouter1871 not to care (or give) a toss1876 not to give (also care) a fuck1879 je m'en fiche1889 not to care a dit(e)1907 je m'en fous1918 not to give a shit1918 to pay no nevermind1946 not to give a sod1949 not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960 not to give a stuff1974 1918 J. Dos Passos Jrnl. 6 Oct. in Fourteenth Chron. (1973) 218 I didn't give a shit how much it cost. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 560 He's a whitearsed bugger. I don't give a shit for him. 1936 M. Levin Old Bunch 73 I don't give a shit how guilty the guy is, it ain't his fault. 1953 T. Wicker Kingpin 134 I don't give a shit for no voters. 1970 Landfall (N.Z.) Sept. 218 Nobody gives a shit for nobody. 1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing iii. 30 An interviewer..being very rude to a politician..and the politician not giving a shit. 1996 Nation (N.Y.) 18 Mar. 6/2 What Pat has, and the other candidates can't muster, is that he's human. Pat gives a shit, and people like that. 2003 New Yorker 26 May 84/2 That was what made New York great. Nobody gave a shit about anybody. P4. a. to shit: to an extreme (esp. negative) extent or degree; very much, a great deal; cf. (all) to hell at hell n. and int. Phrases 4e. ΚΠ 1929 F. Manning Middle Parts of Fortune i. v. 99 If Jerry hadn't taken all his stuff down to the Somme, we'd be shelled to shit in half an hour. 1934 H. Roth Call it Sleep xii. 462 Leo..brushed past him toward the closed door. ‘Hope t' shit it opens.’ 1981 L. Bangs in L. Bangs & J. Morthland Mainlines, Blood Feasts, Bad Taste (2003) 122 It is no longer enough even to cut your body to shit: you have to have a phalanx of big ugly skinhead-goons..to hurl themselves on the audience. 2007 D. White When One Man Dies xxxi. 153 You're there with two guys beaten to shit. b. Originally U.S. shot to shit: completely ruined or destroyed. Cf. shot adj. 4d, 4f. ΚΠ 1968 C. Bukowski Let. 25 Feb. in Screams from Balcony (1998) 322 Harold Norse seems to be in this same deep freeze—the inability to do anything. shot to shit, sick, weak. 1973 R. Meltzer in Whore Just Like Rest (2000) 351 Richard..and his honey-bear have called it ‘quits’. Matrimony in NYC is fuckin shot to shit. 1994 H. Turtledove Worldwar x. 238 Your valves are shot to shit, too. 2002 Seattle Weekly (Nexis) 13 Nov. 106 People will see right through your exaggerations, and then your credibility will be shot to shit. c. to go (also turn) to shit: to be ruined or destroyed; to deteriorate; to go to pieces. ΚΠ 1973 Playboy Feb. 185/2 Who's tending to business, we don't all go to shit? 1988 J. McInerney Story of my Life iii. 44 Sometimes when you're having really great sex, your gray matter turns to mush and your judgment turns to shit. 1997 J. Seabrook Deeper vi. 192 While you're out of town the system goes to shit because of something that could readily have been predicted and prevented. 2008 D. Ginsberg Grift xxvii. 236 Between the pills, the Starbucks and the junk food, he'd put on about twenty pounds and his skin had gone to shit. P5. shit out of luck: completely out of luck; in a terrible situation. Cf. S.O.L. n. at S n.1 Initialisms 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > suffering misfortune out of luck1740 down on one's luck1823 he (also she, you, etc.) must have killed a Chinaman1885 shit out of luck1934 onto (also on to) plums1991 1934 ‘J. M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana 2nd Ser. 120 Some classy shops feature Fish hides [sc. condoms] for a buck—They break just the same, and You're shit out of luck. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 61 If you get tired of climbing you are shit out of luck. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §219/10 Unlucky..shit out of luck, (all) washed up. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die xl. 450 So you see, my dear, you're shit out of luck. 2003 D. Simon Wire (HBO TV script, final shooting draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 2nd Ser. Episode 1. 40 Nick What's it look like? Johnny Fifty Like we're shit out of luck. P6. a. (as) —— as shit: emphatically or extremely ——. ΚΠ 1934 H. Roth Call it Sleep iv. xxi. 560 Hadn't his conductor been slow as shit on the bell? 1974 T. White Britpulp! (1999) 47 Danny's soft as shit and he'd do thirty rather than point at me and Wally. 1989 E. Gilchrist Light can be both Wave & Particle 137 No, it was mean as shit. I'll make it up to you. 1999 F. Renzulli Toodle-fucking-oo (HBO TV shooting script) 2 (stage direct.) in Sopranos 2nd Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) The house is a wreck. Empty beer boxes and the usual array of garbage, potato chip bags, etc., from a beer bash. Standing there looking guilty as shit is Meadow. 2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane vi. 131 The problem is he's living on benefit and he's as thick as shit. b. Originally and chiefly U.S. sure as shit: absolutely, surely; without a doubt. See also quot. 1944 at Shinola n. 2a. ΚΠ 1954 L. O. Griffith Long Time Since Morning ix. 182 I've got to watch those goddamn corners the way Mr. Lott told me to do or I'll sure as shit go bankrupt. 1966 J. J. Phillips Mojo Hand v. 50 If I had of seed that passe'n, I sure as shit would have whipped her butt with it. 1988 ‘J. Norst’ Colors vi. 76 You can try to be a professional. Granted, you can't achieve that very often. But you can sure as shit try. 2010 Splendicity (Nexis) 5 May She's not worried about biting the hand that feeds her, and she sure as shit doesn't care. Categories » P7. happy as a pig in shit: see pig n.1 Phrases 10b. P8. Originally and chiefly U.S. Military. shit on a shingle: a dish of previously cooked meat, typically beef, cut up into small pieces and served with gravy on toast; (more generally) any similar type of dish considered to be unappetizing; abbreviated S.O.S. ΚΠ 1935 Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 13 Oct. 4/7 Among the common names for items on the menu are:..‘slush-on-a-shingle’ (creamed dried beef on toast), ‘blanched worms’ (spaghetti or macaroni), ‘dishwater’ (coffee).] 1939 J. Jones Let. Dec. in To reach Eternity (1989) 4 Shit on a shingle..is..a rubbery piece of toast covered with a thick gravy composed of the leavings of yesterday's dinner. 1939 Amer. Speech 14 30/1 Shit on shingles: roast-beef hash on toast. 1958 T. Berger Crazy in Berlin 135 Chow was SOS, Shit-on-a-shingle, ground beef and gravy slopped across a slice of bread. 1979 G. Hasford Short-Timers 53 We retreat to the Marine mess hall where we eat shit-on-a-shingle and drink lukewarm Kool-Aid. 2006 New Yorker 25 Dec. 112/1 Audie had even stopped teasing the waiters about the food, had stopped calling the uttapam ‘shit on a shingle’. P9. like shit. a. Very badly; awful, horrible. ΚΠ 1940 J. Hanley My Time is Gone xii. 544 I've felt rotten because these last days I've said to myself, he's a decent bloke, and I've treated him like shit! c1947 T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K (1978) viii. 394 Beans, hash, stew, wienies, macaroni—all cooked like shit. Even the chicken on Sunday tastes like hell. 1970 R. Thorp & R. Blake Music of their Laughter 19/2 I just thought, oh, not too many cigarettes around, and so I took a regular drag and it tasted like shit. 1988 E. Segal Doctors xxxvii. 559 Just because he treated you like shit doesn't mean that you have to go along with his opinion. 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 237 And the other half (this was copromode) he thought it all made perfect sense: that if you looked like shit, and felt like shit, and behaved like shit, then pretty soon you were going to smell like shit. 2004 Spin June 32/2 A flamboyant San Diego trio of polyrhythmic, multimedia art-creeps who strip punk down to that special essence where it's all about sounding like shit. b. Very hard; quickly. Cf. hell n. and int. Phrases 4c(a).The source cited in quot. 1973 states that the song quoted was ‘sung by sailors, soldiers, airmen, students and the like in and around Australia’ from 1940–60. ΚΠ 1967 Minnesota Rev. 7 140 Usually I work like shit, get the lunch dishes done by three. 1973 Poor Little Angeline (song) in ‘Hogbotel’ & ‘Ffuckes’ Snatches & Lays 39 He ran like shit lest the squire should split Poor little Angeline! 1990 J. McGill That Rubens Guy (1991) 9 Mr Findlay seen me and I ran like shit. 2004 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 1 Aug. 6 I said ‘So, George, I hear you're into bikes. What have you got?’ And he went, ‘Oh, Robbie, I dunno, it's big and silvery and it goes like shit!’ Categories » P10. piece of shit: see piece n. Phrases 17. Categories » P11. to eat shit: see to eat shit at eat v. Additions. P12. a. Originally U.S. Military. (when) the shit hits the fan: (when) a situation suddenly becomes critical; (when) trouble suddenly or rapidly breaks out. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > unfortunately [phrase] > disastrously > moment of disaster (when) the shit hits the fana1943 a1943 in W. D. Jones Gyrene (1998) xix. 238 Having been there when the shit hit the fan. 1948 N. Mailer Naked & Dead iii. vii. 573 These riffraff in the platoon had an expression, ‘to keep a tight ass-hole’. What did they know of it?.. ‘When the shit hits the fan that's when you keep a...’ 1955 N. Mailer Let. 25 Aug. in N.Y. Rev. Bks. (1999) 26 Feb. 22/3 Whenever a publisher wants you to take out something, it always ends up being the most important thing in the book. So I told him no, and the son of a bitch broke his contract, and of course the shit had hit the fan. 1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds ix. 172 Should the shit hit the fan and the Swedes come over stroppy, he could say..‘weren't nothing to do with us, son!’ 1977 H. Fast Immigrants iii. 171 It's been too quiet. Tomorrow, the shit hits the fan. 2003 P. Reizin Don't try this at Home v. 121 Then there are the panic merchants, who flap helplessly when the shit hits the fan and issue all sorts of meaningless..instructions. b. (when) the shit flies = (when) the shit hits the fan at Phrases 12a. ΚΠ 1966 P. O'Donnell Sabre-tooth iv. 62 We're all going to be there, where the shit's flying. 1976 F. Busch Domest. Particulars 73 That's what gets you screwed, when you bunch the line up like that, they hate it. That's when the shit flies. 1988 I. Weinman Hampton Heat 141 You know the red tape, how the shit flies every time you fire a shot. 2006 W. Bell Blue Helmet i. 6 When the shit flies, you got the whole outfit behind you. You're never alone. P13. Originally U.S. for shit's sake: expressing exasperation, annoyance, or urgency; cf. for fuck's sake at fuck n. Phrases 5a. ΚΠ 1943 B. Appel Dark Stain xii. 281 For shit's sake, Miller, we're all in the Department together. 1974 ‘P. Mann’ Dog Day Afternoon (1975) xxiii. 207 ‘Let's go, man,’ he repeated shakily. A rim of white showed all the way around his irises. ‘Let's for shit's sake go.’ 1987 T. C. Boyle World's End 437 The principal theme of the evening was..to organize a rally against its landing at Garrison, ‘or, for shit's sake, anywhere else on this side of the river’. 2001 A. Dangor Bitter Fruit (2004) iv. 44 ‘Oh, for shit's sake, you Oliphants are befok!’ Silas had said, when he realized that Lydia and her family thought there was something between Mireille and Mikey. Categories » P14. tough shit: see tough shit at tough adj. 6d. P15. Originally U.S. to shoot the shit: (chiefly of a group of people) to talk in an informal manner; to gossip or banter. Cf. to shoot the breeze at shoot v. 32d. ΚΠ 1947 A. R. Matthews Assault ii. 17 We read and shot the shit and cleaned our rifles. 1970 J. Bouton Ball Four ii. 44 Game called on account of rain. So we sat around the clubhouse and shot the shit. 1993 H. Stern Private Parts iii. 78 Here I am, shooting the shit with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, and the Reverend Al Sharpton. 2004 P. Reizin Fiends Reunited ii. 46 There was..an ever-changing roster of guests and panellists who stopped by to shoot the shit about the day's ‘top talking topics’. P16. Originally and chiefly U.S. to think one's shit doesn't stink and variants: to have an unjustifiably high opinion of oneself; to be conceited; to put on airs.Quot. 1954 is taken from a tale told to the author in 1930. ΚΠ 1933 J. Conroy Disinherited 109 He says durin' the war you guys got to thinkin' your sweat didn't stink.] c1947 T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K (1978) iv. 105 That fuckin' staff sergeant thinks his shit don't stink. 1952 ‘H. Grey’ Hoods 144 Them kind act as though their shit don't stink. 1954 V. Randolph Pissing in Snow (1976) lxxix. 117 She says they ain't good enough for her, and the whole Wilson family acted like they thought Cora's shit didn't stink. 1982 A. Dubus in Harper's Mag. Jan. 56/2 Don't ever think your shit doesn't stink. 2000 J. Pemberton Forever & Ever Amen xxx. 184 She goes round like her shit don't stink. P17. Chiefly U.S. Categories » a. not to know shit from Shinola: see Shinola n. 2b. b. not to know from shit: = not to know from Shinola at Shinola n. 2b. not to know —— from shit: = not to know (something) from Shinola at Shinola n. 2b. ΚΠ 1958 E. I. Falstein in S. Liebman Emotional Probl. of Childhood viii. 140 Before I came here, I was completely happy. I didn't know from shit. 1960 C. Wilson Ritual in Dark iv. 282 If you exhibit your work, you put yourself at the mercy of a lot of half-witted bastards who don't know paint from shit. 1977 V. Gornick Romance of Amer. Communism iii. 129 She didn't know from shit about May Day. 1991 Chicago Rev. 37 No. 2–3. 30 His kid didn't know him from shit. 1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xxv. 205 Most of the classes are so big the professors can only skim the papers and if they have assistants they don't know from shit. 2008 ‘J. le Carré’ Most Wanted Man iii. 59 Our beloved Federal Police, who don't know spying from shit. P18. Chiefly in African-American usage. not to be shit: to be worthless, meaningless, or despicable. Cf. sense A. 3c. ΚΠ 1950 P. B. Kaye Taffy 36 White folks ain't shit... They can kiss my ass. 1974 Black World June 74/1 Man ain't shit 'thout no job. 1993 L. J. Rodriguez Always Running ii. 50 Oh, he can talk all right... He acting the pendejo because his brother thinks he so bad. Well, he ain't shit. 1995 Source Feb. 40/1 Just because the beat sound fat and the song is catchy, that ain't shit. 2000 P. Beatty Tuff xi. 152 You niggers ain't shit. I need some new cellies. P19. for shit. a. Chiefly U.S. In negative contexts: at all; in any way. ΚΠ 1951 G. Hopkins tr. J.-P. Sartre Troubled Sleep i. 110 ‘Your outfit?’ asked the bearded man, patting his privates. ‘Ask this little fellow if he belongs to your outfit. Christ, no! We're another outfit. We couldn't stomach your outfit for shit!’ 1963 J. Keats They fought Alone v. iv. 267 The Japs can't shoot for shit. 1989 A. Walker Temple of my Familiar vi. 391 The damn thang don't fit for shit. 1992 New Yorker 6 July 33/2 You guys didn't know Drew for shit. 2007 E. Morrison Swung (2008) i. 13 She couldn't sing for shit. But that made it even better. b. U.S. to be for shit: to be awful or worthless. ΚΠ 1962 T. F. Jones Stairway to Sea in 3×3 12 Without even looking at it she said, ‘That picture is for shit,’ and snatched it from my hands. 1968 A. Hoffman Revol. for Hell of It v. 119 He's a very funny guy but his politics are for shit and his street strategy is worse. 1984 J. Hughes Breakfast Club (film script, final draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 52 Me? I'm here because my father and my coach don't want me to blow my ride [sc. scholarship]. They think my intensity's for shit. 2009 N. Baker Anthologist v. 76 I..went upstairs to bed after thinking that my poetry was not for shit. P20. Originally U.S. to have shit for brains and variants: to be extremely stupid or foolish. Cf. shit-for-brains adj. and n., to have —— for brains at brain n. Phrases 2d. ΚΠ 1960 D. MacCuish Do not go Gentle xii. 180 Larko's got shit fer brains. 1971 Creem June 58/1 If somebody did something stupid, we used to say, ‘Whattaya got, shit for brains?’ 1991 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 37 Shit for brains is what they got, while I got me a quiet house Mondays. 1995 N. Hornby High Fidelity (1996) xxxiii. 247 I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking,..I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains. 1998 Viz June 35/1 Fucking hell, I've got shit for brains, me. I don't even know if I'm drowning or on dry land or what! P21. North American. what (also how, who, etc.) the shit: (with the shit as an intensifier) expressing annoyance, incredulity, amazement, etc.For similar uses, see what (also how, who, etc.) the crap at crap n.1 and adj. Phrases 3, what the fuck at fuck n. 3a(a), what the hell at hell n. and int. Phrases 4d. ΚΠ 1961 B. Wolfe Magic their Singing xx. 180 Listen, just exactly what the shit are you talking about? 1977 M. Torres in R. P. Rettig et al. Manny i. 22/1 I don't recognize all those cats wearing Young Star sweaters as Young Stars, and I think, what the shit, we've really been outmaneuvered. 1987 C. P. Taylor Bring me Smiles ii. 49 How the shit would I know? 1999 Bass Player (Electronic ed.) May We didn't know who the shit Roy Shirley was. 2007 B. Rozanski Borderline 114 What the shit is phenotype, Amy? P22. Originally U.S. and shit: and so on; and similar stuff. Also used simply for emphasis. Cf. sense A. 3b. ΚΠ 1965 C. Brown Manchild in Promised Land xiv. 333 They have their bakeries, their groceries, their delicatessens, and shit, but they don't have a lot of bars and liquor stores. 1986 D. A. Dye Platoon (1987) vi. 109 Look at them papers... That looks like maps and shit. 1995 Source Feb. 52/2 When I say ‘G’, I don't mean a brother who's out there killin' up niggas doin' drive-bys and shit. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 104 You so pretty you look like Michelle Pfeiffer and shit. P23. a. Originally U.S. to get one's shit together: to collect oneself, to manage one's affairs. to have one's shit together: to be in control, to function well. ΚΠ 1968 J. Baldwin Tell me how Long Train's been Gone 479 We ain't about to wait on him, and him the first one they got rid of so they could get their shit together? 1973 Black World June 62 He sure didn't want a family..to support..just when he was ‘..gettin' my shit together to finish school’. 1976 R. Telander Heaven is Playground (1995) 125 ‘Fly doesn't seem to have his shit together like Nate the Skate.’‘Yeh..when he threw those nice passes and the men missed the shots, he sorta gave up. Archibald doesn't do that.’ 1990 Rolling Stone 5 Apr. 76/4 He wanted some space. He was feeling claustrophobic... So he went to take a walk to get his shit together. 2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 51 Listen, this is the point I'm making here, we've got to start realising that if we don't get our shit together we're gonna be in trouble. 2006 G. Malkani Londonstani xx. 247 Then, when the weekend comes round, he gives or sells those reservations to people who need a flash table for dinner but who hadn't got their shit together to book however many weeks in advance they should've done. b. U.S. to lose one's shit: to lose one's composure; to become agitated, angry, scared, etc. ΚΠ 1983 UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Spring 4 When my best friend told me that she was engaged, I just about lost my shit. 1996 C. Logan Hunter's Moon ilviii. 370 They left us out there too fucking long, man. We needed a break. Gunny Cox was losing his shit. 2002 D. H. Sterry Chicken (2003) xi. 120 Calm on the outside, losing my shit on the inside. Categories » P24. to stir (up) shit: see stir v. Additions. P25. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. to push shit uphill: to attempt a difficult or impossible task. ΚΠ 1983 D. Foster Plumbum 151 By the time Felix locates the address, it's clear the band is going to be pushing shit uphill to make the gig on time. 1985 D. H. Binney Long lives King 26 I reckoned Andy was pushing shit uphill..but I got to hand it to him... It must be worth a buck or two for him now. 2009 Australian (Nexis) 29 Apr. 7 They'll be pushing shit uphill if they reckon they're going to find my stash. P26. Originally U.S. shit happens: bad things often happen unavoidably. Also (esp. as a rejoinder) expressing a resigned attitude to any state of affairs or course of events: these things happen, such is life. ΚΠ 1983 UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Spring 5 Shitang/that shit happens, expressions of disgust. 1988 C. Hammerschlag Dancing Healers vii. 92 There was no way to explain why the accident had occurred... As we had often said to one another, ‘shit happens’. 1997 Independent (Electronic ed.) 9 Aug. The general attitude is that it is simply their lot—shit happens. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) iii. 47 ‘Shit happens,’ I said. ‘Month or two—you'll be all right, man.’ P27. Chiefly North American and Australian. shits and giggles (also grins): fun or amusement without any serious purpose. Usually in for (the) shits and giggles (also grins): ‘for fun’, ‘for the hell of it’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > mere amusement > [adverb] of or on the spleenc1460 for love1678 for fun1750 for the fun of the thing1751 for the fun of it1823 good for a laugh1835 for the ride1863 (just) for the hell of it1908 pour le sport1924 for (the) shits and giggles (also grins)1983 1983 St. Cloud (Minnesota) Times 2 Mar. b2/6 Wendt told the officer why he tried to ram the squad car with his truck. ‘Oh, just for shits and giggles.’ 1992 Re: Lindros..any Predictions? in rec.sport.hockey (Usenet newsgroup) 15 July I have been collecting comments made on this copy just for the shits and grins. 2001 T. Kelly Rackets 282 He actually enjoyed it, got a kick out of it. It was all shits and giggles to him. 2019 @kelseyay_ 8 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I'm bored in class so for shits and giggles I looked up what it takes to become an astronaut. P28. Proverb. same shit, different day: used to suggest that a particular situation, or life generally, is unchangingly and relentlessly difficult or unpleasant. ΚΠ 1987 Nat. Lampoon Dec. 112 (advt.) Same shit different day. 1995 C. Stroud Iron Bravo xiii. 242 There's a life after the Army. We get back to Fort Riley, I'm still a nigger. Same shit, different day. 2008 F. A. Polito Band Fags! 321 I don't know why I ever thought things would be different once I got to high school. It's pretty much been ‘same shit, different day’ since Day One. < as lemmas |
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