My mom used to use this expression whenever she was upset. She "threatened" to "skin us alive". I could only imagine running around for the rest of my life with no skin!!!
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used to think that when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.Anon
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE - I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer— Janella
- I used to think wrinkles came about because people just grew too much skin.Anon
- that creases in clothes would pinch your skin — katy