My dad is a builder and uses alot of colourful language, but had always admonished my brother and I never to copy any of it. However, I could never understand why he would describe someone who was restless and fidgety (especially if in and out of a seat)as "up and down like a horse's drawers." What he'd actually said was "whore's drawers". (drawers are panties if you're american).
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that cursive writing was a secret language that only grown-ups could understand.— nicole
- I used to think my brothers penis was a hotdog, until i put one in my panties and the dog ate it.— Amanda
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I thought there was only one copy of a movie and you had to wait til it got to your town,— quagmire
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen