"send s.o. over"

[Sam Clements]

Perhaps they had been discussing the game, " Red Rover, Red Rover" just
prior to Bogart saying this.    :)

Sam Clements

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From: "Geoffrey Nunberg" <nunberg at ISCHOOL.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 5:40 PM
Subject: "send s.o. over"


> "Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over," Humphrey Bogart says to Mary
> Astor in The Maltese Falcon. In context, it's clear that what he
> means is "turn you in to the police," but I can't find this sense for
> 'send over' in any dictionary or slang dictionary (memo to JL: Vol. 3
> can't come a moment too soon). Was this a one-off?
>
> Geoff Nunberg
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