shuck and jiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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shuck and jive (三人称単数 現在形 shucks かつ jives, 現在分詞 shucking かつ jiving, 過去形および過去分詞形 shucked かつ jived)

1. (slang, offensive, derogatory) To tell a misleading story, especially for advantage.
   • 2007 January 5, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, “Growing Up To Be a Black Man”, in washingtonpost.com:

     I also tell Tony to beware of the paths that America's legacy of racism has cleared for him. There's the one for the lazy, the uneducated, criminals, homeless people or those receiving government assistance of some kind. And there's the one for those who can rap or play basketball. And then there's one, perhaps most dangerous and damaging of all, for the folks willing to shuck and jive their way to the top of some diversity-deprived corporation or government-appointed post, compromising chunks of themselves along the way just to "make it."

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shuck and jive (usually uncountable, 複数形 shucks かつ jives)

1. (slang, offensive, derogatory) Deceit.
   • 1979 December 21, “Hank Williams Jr. at the Roxy”, in Los Angeles Times:

     More often than not, the I've-really-paid-my-dues stance adopted by country singers is pure shuck and jive. That's not the case with Hank Williams Jr.