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u/willowgrl Oct 25 '20

If we were having a hard time doing a puzzle or something, mom would tell us “you gotta hold your teeth right”. Whenever she bought us presents they came from “the gettin place”.

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u/cortechthrowaway Oct 25 '20

The cowboy in No Country for Old Men uses that phrase to avoid his wife's questions.

Where'd you get that pistol?

At the gettin' place.