What is Kidding On The Square?


1.

joking, but also meaning it

2.

I can see how you might think Al Franken had coined the expression if you had never heard it before, but it was an expression my mother when I was growing up -- and she died in 1984.

When Al picked up the tab for dinner he joked about me being a tightwad; I felt bad because I figured he was probably kidding on the square.

3.

A Frankenism, meaning joking, but really meaning it.

Nick: Hey, Frank, how's the wife treatin' ya?

Frank: Fuck you, Nick.

Nick: Kidding on the square, Frank!


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