[Ads-l] _on the bone_ "ithyphallic; on hard"

[Jonathan Lighter]

New to me, though "bone" goes way back.

Similarly, "on hard" is apparently AAVE.

JL

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> This is in the UD from 2006, because I put to there. I've now finally found
> an independent cite:
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> "I've got a love jones
>  For your body and your skin tone
>  Five minutes alone
>  I'm already _on the bone_"
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> Clifford "Method Man" Smith. All I Need. Def Jam Records, November 15, 1994
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> Naturally, I've known this expression since ca. 1947.
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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