Nobody ever said this in the Detroit Public Schools when I was growing up in the 1960s.

g someone on the first day of a new mont…s (and still is today) in use by school children. It was very much a childhood taunt uttered while “… literally pinching and punching someone on the first day of a new month.” Primarily heard in UK, Australia, Ireland.
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Nobody ever said this in the Detroit Public Schools when I was growing up in the 1960s.
But there was plenty of punching and shoving.
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