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First attested in print in the 1960s (see Citations). Earlier attested variations include Does the little brown bear live in the woods? (1952), and Does a bear like the woods? (1959)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
does a bear shit in the woods
Today it means: A rhetorical question in response to a question to which the answer is an emphatic yes. Full definition →