Seeley Booth says of "Bones":

[Jonathan Lighter]

Because HDAS III is unavailable with printed cites back to '65.

JL

JL

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "[When I try to tell her how good-looking she is, s]he thinks I'm just
> _shining her on_."
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> Apparently, some scriptwriter thinks that _shine ... on_ means "string
> ... along" and not "brush ... off."
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