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In reference to a person’s anus, the slang phrase to stick (also to put, to shove, etc.) (something) where the sun don’t shine, and its variants, express contemptuous rejection.
—Synonym: to put (something) where the monkey put(s) the nuts.
The phrase to put (something) where the sun don’t shine occurs, for example, in an obituary of the Scottish author Marion Gibbons (née Chesney – 1936-2019), who wrote mystery novels under the pen name of MC Beaton—obituary published in The Herald (Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland) of Friday 3rd January 2020 [page 9, column 3]:
She was not a fan of her “queen of cosy crime” moniker. “It is patronising and implies that my books, which are easy to read, must be easy to write. Nobody calls Agatha Christie cosy,” she told the Crime Hub in 2019. “To keep writing in clear well-balanced sentences takes a lot of hard work and if anyone doesn’t want a Glasgow kiss, swallow that opinion and put it where the sun don’t shine.”
These are, in chronological order, the earliest occurrences that I have found of the slang phrase to stick (also to put, to shove, etc.) (something) where the sun don’t shine and variants:
1-: From the script, by Robert Riskin (1897-1955), of Platinum Blonde (1931), a U.S. comedy film directed by Frank Capra (1897-1991) and starring Jean Harlow (1911-1937)—as published in Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997), edited by Pat McGilligan [page 82]:
BINGY (striking a pose): Big Chief Bingy come to white man’s tepee to make friends. Big Chief very sorry. To show how sorry—will bend over and let white man kick Big Chief where sun never shines.
STEW: Excuse me, Gallagher. I wouldn’t miss this one for the world.
He bends over, and Stew winds up and delivers a hard kick to his backside.
2-: From an account of a television debate between the U.S. authors Gore Vidal (1925-2012) and Norman Mailer (1923-2007), hosted by Dick Cavett (born 1936)—account by Lou Cedrone, published in The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) of Friday 3rd December 1971 [page B11, column 2]:
Mailer, by this time, very up, told Cavett to look at his “list of questions” and get on with the program, to which Cavett replied, “why don’t you fold it five different ways and put it where the sun don’t shine.”
3-: From Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series, Volume 27, Part 5, Number 1, Section 1: Music: Current Registrations: January-June 1973 (Washington, D.C.: Copyright Office, The Library of Congress, 1974) [page 613, column 2]:
PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE; w & m Bob Richison (Bobby Richison) 1 p. © Farr Away Music; 28 Mar 73; EP 310335.
—Note: This song can be heard here, on YouTube.
4-: From The McDonald’s ‘down’ on Little League, by Ralph Leef, sports writer, published in The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California, USA) of Monday 8th April 1974 [page 10, column 1]:
—Context: Valentia, a little girl, wanted to play baseball with the boys:
SEBASTOPOL—The McDonald family of 9995 Graton Road here are “down” on Little League Baseball, Inc.
“My feeling is that they can take Little League and put it where the sun doesn’t shine,” Mrs. Claire McDonald, area co-chairman for Jerome Waldie for Governor Committee, says.
The McDonald’s are disappointed because a member of the family—eight-year-old Valentia McDonald—has been denied eligibility to join the Forestville Little League boys’ baseball program.
5-: From a report on MTM Enterprises Inc., a U.S. television production company founded by the U.S. actress and producer Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017) and the U.S. producer Grant Tinker (1926-2016)—report by Dick Adler, published in the Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California, USA) of Wednesday 17th July 1974 [Part IV, page 15, column 1]:
The MTM operation is the kind of production company where a group portrait is all but impossible: Nobody is free or working at the same time and as Grant Tinker points out, “If I ordered them all to be outside at 11:30 they might tell me in the immortal words of Dick Cavett to fold it five ways and put it where the sun don’t shine.”
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