Flying Fuck (1932)?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/11/2008 09:31 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>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...".

How do we know it isn't "... leap"?

Joel

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