"talk to the hand" (Query)

[Johanna N Franklin]

    It's teen slang.  You stick your hand out in the face of someone who
is boring you or being unpleasant and say "Talk to the hand, 'cause the
face ain't listening."  I've also heard "Talk to the hand, 'cause the
face don't understand."  I guess I've heard it as just "Talk to the
hand," too, but less often.

I heard it in high school in southern Illinois in the mid-1900s.

    Smile, Johanna

Excerpts from mail: 7-Mar-100 "talk to the hand" (Query) by Gerald
Cohen at UMR.EDU
>    I have received the following query:
>
> . ... Do you know the aproximate origin date of the
> >slang phrase "talk to the hand"?  Also, do you know where this phrase
> >originates?  Thank you for your time!
> >
> ---------I  am totally unfamiliar with slang "talk to the hand.," and  a
> check of several dictionaries of slang turns up nothing.   Can  anyone
> shed light on it?
>
> ----Gerald Cohen
>
>
>
> gcohen at umr.edu


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