• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    It’s been around a while; as evidenced by the Wikipedia article the other commenter provided, at least since 1936, with unsubstantiated claims of it being an older Chinese saying / curse.

    I’ve pretty much only heard it from Pratchett books or fellow Pratchett fans, though.