[Ads-l] "Talk like a man with a paper ass"

[Jonathan Lighter]

'To talk nonsense.'  Common in WW2.

These seem to be the earliest traces:

1895 *St. Louis-Post Dispatch* of (Nov. 15)  3: “Naw, I weren’t born in dis
here place….You talk like a man wid a paper nose.”

1906 P*rovidence Evening Bulletin (*March 23) 3:“You talk like a man with a
paper knee.”

Not that these make any more sense.  Nor does the common form "...asshole."


JL
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