How did the term "rise and shine" get started?

Answer #1

Sounds like a reference too the sun rising in the morning and as you know the sun does shine light rays at the earth so… just a thought.

Answer #2

The phrase “Rise and shine” comes from a 1916 United States Marine Corps manual that instructed non-commissioned officers to enter the privates’ barracks in the early morning and use the phrase to wake the men.

While rise means “get up,” shine means “make sure your boots and brass are ready for inspection.”

Answer #3

The earliest use of ‘rise and shine’ in print allude to a biblical reference, in Isaiah 60:1. King James Version, 1611, gives that as: Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. The earliest examples of the actual phrase ‘rise and shine’ don’t come from the bible itself but are clearly directly influenced by it. For example, The Testimony of William Erbery, 1658, a book of religious observations directed “To the Christian Reader”: They [the Christian saints] shall so rise and shine, that the glory shall rise upon them. The use of ‘rise and shine’ as a wake up call for soldiers is what has given us the expression in everyday use. In that context ‘rise’ just means ‘rouse yourself’ and ‘shine’ derives from the shining of boots that soldiers were expected to do each morning. It is difficult to know if it was coined independently of the biblical source or whether it was also a jokey reference which compared the bleary-eyed rough soldiery to the radiant Christian venerables. http://funadvice.com/r/14pn6lb84sv

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