[Ads-l] _drop the lip_

[Wilson Gray]

'40's-'50's StL slang: "narc on, scream on*, rat out, drop a dime on," etc.

*Back in the '60's, I heard Myron Cohen use "scream on" in the sense of
"upbraid, harangue, fuss at." "Scream on" has these meanings in BE, too.

Youneverknow.


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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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