[Ads-l] Antedating of "Give Someone Some Skin" (Variant)

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to give someone some skin (variant) (OED, s.v. skin, P.17., 1940)

1939 Jitterbug Jamboree Song Book 33 in Robert S. Gold Jazz Talk (1975) 246

slip me some skin  congratulate me.

Fred Shapiro

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