Take it easy, Greasy

Posted by ESC on July 29, 2009 at 16:19

In Reply to: Take it easy, Greasy posted by Stephen on July 29, 2009 at 07:34:

: In the Philadelphia of my youth, a common phrase meaning "calm down" was "Take it easy, Greasy, you ain't got far to slide." A baseball reference?

Variation. I have a very poor memory for names and a whole lot of other things. But a good phrase -- I remember. Alexandria, Va., circa 1970, I was riding around in a car with my new roomie, her friend and the friend's little boy who was being rowdy. The mother said to her son, "Take it easy, Greasy. You've got a long way to slide."

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