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(Those who think of California as a paragon of avant-garde thought may need reminding that the school-marms there succeeded in banning the sale of the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, in the 1970s, by which time one might have thought that their moral fiber would have caught up with their professed modernity.)
Also Went-worth/Flexner and Chapman both cite the term the leather as meaning a kick, but they date the term from 1946, citing a passage from Damon Runyon: “he would give his fallen foe what we called `the leather,' meaning a few boots abaft the ears.
As for hamburger down , meaning to `take it easy,' could there be any relationship between that term and the hamburger cited by both Chapman and Went-worth/Flexner?
Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang provides a citation for the similar form yatata yatata yatata from the play Jim Dandy : A Fat Man in a Famine (1947) by William Saroyan.
It is not in the slightest way suggested that picking up citations from other works is in any way curious or reprehensible—anyone would be a fool to research any subject without relying on the scholarship that has gone before—but one would have expected the DARE to be found among books like Farmer and Henley's Dictionary of Slang and Its Analogues , Chapman's New Dictionary of Slang , Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang , and the others listed.