Taint your wagon

English translation: name of film

21:38 Jun 3, 2002

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary

English term or phrase: Taint your wagon

Taint your wagon.

what's the pun??

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Selected answer:name of film

Explanation:
Paint Your Wagon (1969) PLOT | TRIVIA | CAST | CREDITS | PURCHASE
"Ben and Pardner shared everything ...even their wife!". Marvin ...
www.clinteastwood.net/filmography/paint.htm

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and broadway musical: Paint Your Wagon. unofficial webpage- www.meowser.com. Original Broadway
Stars- James Barton and Olga San Juan. Musical Numbers- I ...
www.prigsbee.com/Musicals/shows/paintwagon.htm

t\'ain\'t = it isn\'t (slang)
verb to taint = to cause something to have a distinct interpretation (may be derogatory)

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RHELLER
United States
Local time: 05:45

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name of film

RHELLER

It ain't your wagon/taint your wagon

Bill Greendyk

explanation below...

jerryk (X)

paint as in put a color on, taint as in put a disagreeable color on

Hermeneutica

Based on "Paint Your Wagon"?

Jack Doughty

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6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

name of film

RHELLER
United States
Local time: 05:45
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 1252

9 mins confidence:

It ain't your wagon/taint your wagon

Explanation:
Could be saying 't aint your wagon' in as a way of saying it's not your specialty, forte?

Not sure on this one.

Bill Greendyk
United States
Local time: 07:45
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 24

9 mins confidence:

explanation below...

Explanation:
There was a rather odd and well publicized Hollywood "western musical" made in the 1960's and starring Clint Eastwood among many other major stars, called "Paint your Wagon". "Taint your wagon" would be "t'aint your wagon" or "it isn't your wagon". I suppose some people would consider this variation amusing.

jerryk (X)
PRO pts in pair: 8

12 mins confidence:

Based on "Paint Your Wagon"?

Explanation:
Can't really answer this without some idea of the context, don't even know if it's "Taint" (in the sense of pollute or degrade) or "'Tain't" meaning "It is not". But I suspect there may be a pun in there somewhere based on "Paint Your Wagon", which is a well-known musical dating from 1969, by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:45
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 4190

48 mins confidence:

paint as in put a color on, taint as in put a disagreeable color on

Explanation:
All the others are right about the musical of course, I think taint is almost an antonym to paint and changes only one letter.

Hermeneutica
Switzerland
Local time: 13:45
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in pair: 4

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