no shame in my game

English

Etymology

Chosen for the rhyme.

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Phrase

no shame in my game

1. (slang, originally African-American Vernacular) Implying that one has nothing to be embarrassed about or ashamed of in one's current activity or endeavor.
   • 1988, Thomas Henderson, Out of Control, page 196:

     I hung out at Biff's, like a speakeasy, and there was no shame in my game.

   • 1995, Patricia Cukor Avila, The Evolution of AAVE in a Rural Texas Community - An Ethnolinguistic Study, page 108:

     'Cause I don' have no shame in my game. At all.

   • 1997, G. Cajetan Luna, Youths Living with HIV - Self-evident Truths, page 134:

     She sucked her thumb up until a few months before her twenty-first birthday, "no shame in my game."

   • 1999, Fred Goodwin, Lichtenstein Creative Media, Intelligence, page 21:

     Secondly, mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. There is no shame in my game.

Alternative forms

• ain't no shame in my game, there's no shame in my game