Don’t give me that jive. I know where you were last night.

Although speaking Western Japanese to your friends in Ōsaka, Kyōto, or Kōbe will allow you to get closer to them, speaking Western Japanese in Tōkyō might seem as outlandish as hearing a Japanese exchange student back home speaking jive or cockney.

"Oh come on," she said. "I heard you talking jive the other day when you were playing with your dolls. And back in February, when you recited that poem by, by—what was the poet's name?
"Langston Hughes?"
"Right, Langston Hughes," Kanta said. "You spoke jive when you read that poem, remember?"

Don’t try to jive me! I know where you were last night!

It's the year when all of the white politicians will be back in the so-called Negro community jiving you and me for some votes.

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life; ooh, see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the dancing queen!

"Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."

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