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DDT!
used for disparaging, urging the listener to drop dead twice US
Youth usage; punning on the insecticide now banned but used with great effectiveness to kill mosquitos in the years after World War 2. Recorded in Time, 3 October 1949.- Last year’s “drop dead” is now “D.D.T.” (drop dead twice) or, more formally, “Please do me the personal favor of dropping dead.” — Life, p. 119, 17 November 1947 But when Batsy feels like snoozing nice ... “DDT,” you all ... “Drop Dead Twice.” [They’ll Do It Every Time comic strip]. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 10 November 1950
- — American Weekly, p. 2, 14 August 1955
- He remembers Winchell’s famous handwritten notes on top of wrongo items returned to the sender: “DDT” which meant “Drop Dead Twice.” — Daily Variety, p. 2, 19 November 1998
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