pump sunshine up one's skirt
Masa
whoever delivered the letter and photo is pumping sunshine up our skirts
(S.Martini)
context: Someone sent a threat letter and photo to them who are on the prosecuting side in a court trial.
question: about the meaning of pump sunshine up one's skirt
From context, it must mean like: to give them a scare.
But, how so?
Harrison Hill
Gooogling the phrase suggests it is a rare and vulgar bit of slang,
which means whatever you want it to mean. I have never heard it
before.
GG
CDB
the character is speaking ironically: whoever did that is trying to
flatter us/cheer us up.
tony cooper
wrote:
It's a variation on the phrase "blow sunshine up someone's ass": give
someone undeserved and excessive praise or to speak bullshit to
someone in a fake complimentary way.
Authors sometime try to write a standard phrase in some different way
just as a change.
In this case, the meaning seems to be something along the lines of
misleading someone by providing them with something falsely useful.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
Masa
"Then you think maybe this isn't serious?" I say.
From this sentence, I may have been wrong in my interpretation.
So, "pump sunshine up our skirts" means like false threat ?
Sorry, I don't know the image of this phrase itself.
tony cooper
wrote:
>Let me quote the following sentence.
I don't recognize the term as one that implies or states a threat.
It implies some sort of falseness, but not a threat.
Rich Ulrich
I few years ago, I ran into "You're shinin' me on"
in somebody's mystery novels with a Southern setting.
It sounds like the same meaning. But it seems like a
reach to think they are directly related.
--
Rich Ulrich