to "spit-shine"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Excellent.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Here's an earlier one.

Monthly Checklist of State Publications - Page 1105
by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division, Library of
Congress. Acquisitions Dept, Library of Congress. Division of
Documents - _1943_
_Spit-shine_ and double-time: — 'I ...

-Wilson


On 3/2/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> Surely, this is way older in print than 1967! Or even 1958!
>
> Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre - Page 210
> by Francis L. Sampson - _1958_ - 234 pages
>
> Saint Michael seems to be expecting them, for he himself is wearing
> the famed "jump
> boots" with a "_spit shine_". ...
>
> IAC, it's possible to "spit"-shine footwear using only shoe polish,
> one's fingertips, and a little plain water. There's no need to be so
> gross as to use actual spittle.
>
> -Wilson
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> On 3/2/07, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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> > Amazingly not in OED, which lacks the noun as well:
> >
> > 1967 in Bill Frey _Letters from 'Nam_ (N.Y.: Warner Books, 1992) 23: You wouldn't recognize your spit-shined Paratrooper.
> >
> > JL
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