Idiom: shake the dew off the lily (antedating 1951 probably)

[Garson O'Toole]

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> Here you go.
>
> 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark _Amer. Thesaurus Slang_ (§124.5) 153
> URINATE... piddle, piss... shake a sock, shake the lily _or_ the dew off
> the lily, spring a leak, [etc.].
>
> That's from the second printing, but this printing is also from 1942.

Thank you very much for checking this, Jesse, and kudos to Oxford
regarding resource availability.
Garson

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