Chili Queen & Chiquita & How's tricks?

[Geoffrey Nunberg]

There's a great film noir exchange in The Big Steal (1949):

Joan Graham (Jane Greer): Stop calling me Chiquita. You don't say
that to girls you don't even know!

Lt. Duke Halliday (Robert Mitchum): Where I learned Spanish, you do.


Geoff Nunberg

>I've heard Hispanic mashers in NYC address
>attractive young women with, "Hey, chiquita !"
>This  happens especially during lunch break at
>Midtown construction sites.
>
>    There's also the fabled Chiquita Banana.
>
>    JL
>

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