Query: 1910 "squeeze my bit"

[Mark A. Mandel]

JL wrote:
>>>
Jim beat me to it.The phrase seems to mean, "don't try to be stingy with my
salary." "Bit" usually means "share of loot," but it could serve
"poetically" for "money."
<<<

Not just politically, but drawing on "two bits".

-- Mark A. Mandel, Linguistic Data Consortium
   University of Pennsylvania
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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