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"Greening someone"
I have known the expression "Are you greening me?" since I was a kid, growing up in Jackson, Michigan. I have always tacitly understood it to mean something like "Are you kidding me?" or "Are you pulling pulling my leg?" It was used in a context of gentle chiding, as if the other person, more sophisticated, was trying to gently point out the other's backwards nature, relative innocence, and overall lack of sophistication -- much as though it were being implied that that person talking was trying to take advantage of the adressee's "greenness", or lack of maturity. (As in the meaning of "greenhorn") I'll admit, it sounds like a rural/Southern USA idiomatic verb phrase -- and yet, I can not seem to find any reference to it in my online searches. Why is that?