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The response would be, "Naw sir, boss, I don't know nothing about that," a bunch of step-and-fetch-it kind of stuff but done very cynically.
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I got a call from a local South Dakota sports / talk radio station asking me about Geoff Wetrosky and his vote and sign stealing here in NH when he was a step-and-fetch-it for John Kerry and former Mayor Baines.
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Actually, what I found most disconcerting about Bubby’s comment that Sec Rice “carries Bush’s dirty water like a housemaid” was the racial imagery of her acting as a sort of Aunt Jemima or step-and-fetch-it.
Waldo Jaquith - Webb still waiting for Rice’s response to his question. 2007
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He was hired to translate and to scout, and that’s all he did—no camp cooking or water carrying for him, He wasn’t no step-and-fetch-it boy, he always said.
The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985
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He was hired to translate and to scout, and that’s all he did—no camp cooking or water carrying for him, He wasn’t no step-and-fetch-it boy, he always said.
The Pride of Hannah Wade Janet Dailey 1985
Gammerstang commented on the word step-and-fetch-it
(noun) - A person that drags one leg in walking . . . A favorite nickname for a tall girl, quick and decisive in her movements.
--G.F. Northall's Warwickshire Word-Book, 1896
January 15, 2018