Flying Fuck (1932)?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:10:54PM -0400, David Marc Fischer wrote:
> I finally saw the movie Scarface (1932) and noticed a line of dialogue
> that goes something like
>
> - They said you could take a flyin'...
> - Okay, okay.
>
> See the transcript at
>
> http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/scarface-script-transcript-paul-muni.html
>
> I figured I'd share this with all youse word sleuths out there.

This quotation is already in HDAS, which has two earlier
examples of "take a flying...".

Jesse Sheidlower
Oxford English Dictionary

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