I’ve heard the phrase “Go Peddle Your Papers” on reruns of “The Bob Newhart Show” (actually I remember the episode I heard it for the first time when it was originally aired).
No one has been able to tell me what this means. Except some people have told me that the phrase has been around a while, although not around now.
I don’t know for sure, but this is what I presume:
I think the implication is that the recipient of this barb is being called a paperboy. That is, someone who is either too young and inexperienced to have an opinion of any value, or too stupid/inept/whatever to get a ‘real job’.
Just a note - I think the phrase would more commonly (or more accurately) be “Go peddle your papers elsewhere”. I have nothing more to add, except that it’s not synonymous with “Come, stay a while”.
Years ago[circa 1920] it meant to take the line-of bull that some one was peddling and waste someone else’s time-----------then it became merely a suggestion that someone should just go away snd be a pest somewhere else.
If the person was obviously fibbing the companion phrase was,“tie that little bull outside”.
That was in the days when newspapers often put out’extras’ that newsboys sold street- by- street calling out,“Extra,extra-read all aout it~!”.