hand: talk to the

[Barnhart]

 Cohen writes:

>  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?

The earliest quotation I can find is 1994.  I am sure it is earlier in
speech.  Is there any evidence in the college slang collections?  It
does not seem to have caught on much before 1996 or 1997 in the media.
Much of that is metalinguistic listing.

Regards,
David Barnhart
barnhart at highlands.com