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if you were verbally cutting someone down to size (and i expect your grandfather wasn't jack the ripper, or the man behind the "texas chain saw .." )-- it would have been cuffed or boxed your ears-- though it wasn't unknown for a mother to suggest you should listen to her, and to make her point--she would grab you by your ear lobe.. Never happened to me, but i have seen it done...
We keeped our ears "pinned" for news...
and one cousin with "jug handle ears" was once found in his early teen with scotch tape on his ears, trying to make them lie a bit closer to his head.. he would have been quite happy to pin back his ears...
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In reply to: pin your ears back
My Grandfather used that expression, but it meant to cut someone down to size, or something like that.
I've heard "He got his ears pinned back!" meaning someone was told off in no uncertain terms.
Also : "I'll pin your ears back for you.." when threatening bodily harm.
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Wow says : "I'll pin your ears back for you.." when threatening bodily harm, a more violent form of "you're giving me GBH of the ear'ole". I love that phrase!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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lso - when a group of people are extremely busy, it's a case of being "all elbows and a...holes around here"
Having worked in an environment wherein this expression was common, it appeared to indicate that one was so busily bent over one's work that an observer would only see these particular parts of a worker. It did not indicate that one was attending an after Christmas sale with a group of jerks.
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Which reminds me: Of all the things i have lost, i miss my mind the most...
How about that Poe boy (he wasn't rich) who said, "Quoth the raven, never mind" Or the United Negro College Fund slogan, "A waist is a terrible thing to mind?" Or, speaking of "tie one on," the bar on Formosa called, "Taiwan on?" And did we get the hard-driving, all work and no play personality trait from them? Why else call it a "Taipei personality?"
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a "Taipei personality?"Oh, Geoff, that's great!  Ranks right up there with a Grade A gray day. Makes me want to Singapore boy a song.
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Makes me want to Singapore boy a song.
Are you planning on a singing korea? I assume you must now work as a milk maid, since you do have a whey with words.
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I assume you must now work as a milk maid
Ah, yet another role assigned! Squirt, squirt. I do try to whey my words carefully. And, no, I do not wish to
have or cause St. Vitus' Dance.
Whoa! Gurunet is good! I clicked on St. Vitus' Dance, and it came up 'chorea'. I'm impressed!
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A friend of mine is called Tony Hancock. People regularly ask him whether he minds being named after parts of the body.....
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I've got a book called Psycho-Darwinism by Christopher Badcock. I'd have thought, me personally, that if your name was Bearer of the Murdered Father Figure the Penis is Evil, you'd steer well away from psychoanalysis as a career choice.
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