My grandmother used expressions such as "Hold your tounge" and "Keep your shirt on."
I remember holding my tounge for about 5 minutes before I asked if I could stop.
Or holding down my shirt incase it accidently flew off.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- when i was little i thought that my hic-ups were caused by little man on the back of my tounge, yodelingAnon
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- When you saw a funeral go by, you had to grab a button on your shirt.Anon
- I used to believe that the head part of a shirt was a monster and that it would eat you.— Taliyah
- If a man wore his shirt out, I thought his wife was going to have a baby.Anon
- I thought Marco Polo was a kind of shirt.Anon