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Foot as an interjection expressing irritation (“Oh, foot, I've lost my glasses again”) is a Southernism first recorded in a 1953 issue of The New Yorker . It might originally be from the obsolete interjection Christ's foot!
In an attempt to reverse this trend, a Southern friend of mine offers the alternate when the grits hit the pan , but this usage seems destined to remain a regionalism at best, the kind of Southernism collected by John H. Felts in Bumps, Grinds, and Other Lewd (1389) Gestures [XVI,3].