View Full Version : Giving me the business


Tankeryanker
10-11-2025, 02:19 PM
Highway Patrol episode 32 Reckless driving.

The lady says "It's only been a few weeks, you going to give me the business already"?

I thought beaver was the only show that says this, but I guess not.

ThisLittlePiggy
10-11-2025, 07:32 PM
I think it's been around since the 1920s when gangsters used it. Like how they say wiseguy. Hey wiseguy are you giving me the business. I think I've heard it in some of those old movies from the Forties.

cd637299
10-11-2025, 09:16 PM
I was getting deja vu—the OP started the same kind of thread last year.

The old thread is in the middle of page 2 on the LITB page.

I think I referenced a case where an NFL referee called a penalty back in the 1990s, a personal foul against one defensive player for “giving the business” to a quarterback. That was classic.

cd

Dude111
10-11-2025, 11:41 PM
I think I remember this 1!!

Tankeryanker
10-12-2025, 07:44 AM
I was getting deja vu—the OP started the same kind of thread last year.

The old thread is in the middle of page 2 on the LITB page.

I think I referenced a case where an NFL referee called a penalty back in the 1990s, a personal foul against one defensive player for “giving the business” to a quarterback. That was classic.

cd

My god, you want to read something really repetitive of mine, go look at the dr quinn medicine woman page.

vitoscotti
10-12-2025, 08:14 AM
If "giving someone the business" goes back to 1920s gangsters.

Curious if the term was ever used in front of Ward and June and how they reacted to it or if they didn't react at all to it's use.

vitoscotti
10-12-2025, 08:23 AM
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stevea
10-12-2025, 09:00 PM
If "giving someone the business" goes back to 1920s gangsters.

Curious if the term was ever used in front of Ward and June and how they reacted to it or if they didn't react at all to it's use.

I'm not sure about that, but I do know Wally used various "teen" phrases that irritated June, who corrected him. She also always corrected his grammar. He once said to her, "I'm not hardly doing anything." "Wally! We don't use those two words together. You're hardly doing anything, or you're not doing anything." "I wasn't sure, so I used them both."