spit shine

[Jonathan Lighter]

Searches of both Cornell's and Michigan's "American memory" fail to find a single example of "spit shine" _or_ "spit and polish."

  I'm starting to think that the latter used to be far more common in Britain than the U.S., with most American exx. taking their cue from English writings about the Great War.

  JL




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