A phrase I sometimes hear from one of my colleagues is scumbag or scumbags:
- Where does this phrase come from?
- How old is it?
- Is its usage still a common occurrence?
etymology
A phrase I sometimes hear from one of my colleagues is scumbag or scumbags:
Best Answer
Etymonline
I found a condom reference back to 1939 in this snippet from the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Volume 9. The date seems accurate:
And I found this figurative use of the phrase from Chandler Brossard's 1953 The Bold Saboteurs:
(See @Kit's comment above for current usage.)