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shine
verb- to speak evasively and avoid a subject, often through flattery US
- I’m the Finnegan that calls here twice a week hoping to at least hear Orson say there’s no work, except that you shine me every time, and I never hear him say anything at all. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 5, 1993
- to mock someone US
- — Washingnton Post, 14 October 1993
- on the railways, to start a work shift US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 136, 1977
▶ shine for
to appeal to someone US- He’s kind of big and kind of ugly and he’s giving the up and down. Right off he don’t shine for me. — Hal Ellson, Duke, p. 30, 1949
▶ shine on
to ignore something completely US- He’s in there trying to pick up teenyboppers, but they’ve all shined him on. — Gerald Petievich, Money Men, p. 47, 1981
- No, I shined it on and went to Hawaii. — Sandra Bernard, Confessions of a Pretty Lady, p. 80, 1988
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