Shovel Ready

Miss Edith doesn't know for sure where this term came from -- "shovel ready" -- but she's already sick of it.
I looked online and apparently someone's found a citation for it going back to 1995. So we're looking at ten years of shovel-readiness. Fine. But I don't like it, I don't want to hear it anymore, and as far as I'm concerned, when you hear the phrase "shovel ready" you should get ready to be shoveling some shit.

Pardon Miss Edith's French.