> as lemmas

1922 E. E. Cummings Enormous Room iv. 64 I said, ‘F— it, I don't want it.’

1941 D. Thomas Let. 28 May (1987) 486 I get in such a nagged, impotent, messy state when I'm like this;..just sit by myself saying ‘Fuck it’ in a flat voice.

1947 N. Cassady Let. 18 Nov. (2005) 63 As soon as I got high I sat down to write this, have been at it three hours.., have lost my thoughts, have said nothing..—fuck it.

1962 C. Bukowski Let. 1 June in C. Bukowski & S. Martinelli Beerspit Night & Cursing (2001) 275 Being human and being not-human, somewhere in between there is art. So fuck it. I would rather ride a dinosour [sic] to hell.

1972 H. S. Thompson Let. 3 Jan. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 466 I guess that bastard Felton let the pig out of the bag anyway, so fuck it.

1990 L. B. Rubin Erotic Wars 180 Fuck it, why not?

a1994 K. Cobain Jrnls. (2002) 270 2 hours out of 2 years worth of casual drug use is nothing. By the time youve said fuck it the long process of trying to stay off begins.

2002 L. Wener Goodnight Steve McQueen liii. 291 We never make a plan and stick to it. Fuck it. I'm going for a slash.