[Ads-l] Antedating of "Straighten Up and Fly Right"

[Shapiro, Fred]

straighten up and fly right (OED 1942)

1941 Detroit Tribune 25 Oct. 9/1 (Newspapers.com)

Things sort of caught up with us and we just couldn't navigate but now thanks to my boss we'll "straighten up and fly right."

Fred Shapiro

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org