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

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

1935 Down Beat Nov.

Hand Me That Skin — a big expression for "shake pal".

Fred Shapiro


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