[Ads-l] Green's: "shine someone on (v.)"

[Wilson Gray]

> mainly from California.

The only place that I ever heard it, before hearing it a few times on TV in
the last dekkid, was Los Angeles. But, since everybody in L.A. is from
somewhere else, the first person that I heard use it - in the phrase, "[He]
shined my black ass on!" - was from Trenton, NJ, and the person that I knew
who used "Shine it on" the most was a childhood friend from StL.



On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The early HDAS exx. of "shine it on" are mainly from California.
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:35 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "(also put someone on (the) shine, shine it on, shine on someone) [euph.
> > shit n. (1)]
> > [1960s+] (US black) to ignore, to disdain."
> >
> >
> > I'm familiar with "shine someone on," in my experience, the original
> > phrase, and the later variant, "shine it on," with the meaning,"don't
> > bother (about it), never mind, don't give it a second thought" or, to
> quote
> > a line from the *movie* - it doesn't occur in the novel, I've been told -
> > The Pawnbroker: "Cool it, baby! Don't get up tight!" The other two alsos
> > I've never heard. If "[euph. shit n. (1)]" is meant to suggest an
> > etymology, then it's nonsense. Don't nobody use no euphemisms in the
> 'hood.
> > Y'all motherfuckers ought to know that.
> >
> > Don't Shine Me On - Part 1, Part 2 - 1963
> > (Frank Robinson)
> > Frankie & The Del Stars
> > Foremost Record Company 785
> >
> > The record is later than the phrase, by about a year - who can really
> know
> > when a catch-phrase originated? - and was not at all successful. I heard
> it
> > only once. But, its lack of success makes it rare, rarity makes it
> > collectible, and so it turns up on YouTube.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVEfXVP7gGo
> > Part 1
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2fX74qqUs
> > Part 2
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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