"On a serious tip, …"

[Victor Steinbok]

Under false pretenses? Unreliable info? I never heard the other one, so
can't say anything...

     VS-)

On 5/14/2012 7:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> I've never quite been able to get a feel for either that phrase or
> its, IME, much older relative,
>
> _on a bullshit tip_
>
> ...
> OTOH, I first heard
>
> "on a bullshit tip"
>
> hundreds of times a day - without being able to fathom how to use it -
> starting in 1962, when I was still on the set, and GoogBks has it in
> print from 1968:
>
> "… [Y]ou people ... got me all the way out here _on a bullshit tip_ …"
>
> James Baldwin. 1968. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. New York: Dial
> --
> -Wilson

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