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The best they could come with was Urban American (must be, I
nod at that) but earliest known citation was 1986. [DB]
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A quick check on Google Books finds Maya Angelou using the first part in
1986 ('Life's a btch. You gotta go out and kick ass'; *Kicking Ass* 1986),
and before her Joyce Reiser Kornblatt in *Nothing to Do with Love* (1981).
The phrase is presumably a subset of something else. Cf Joyce ('sixtyseven
is a bitch' in *Ulysses*), and of describing anything problematic as a
bitch. 'And then you die' is a pretty obvious extension or rejoinder.
CW
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It was really only in spelling out the decrees of the high command that we
came to understand ourselves (Kafka)
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