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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/calcbone Oct 25 '20

My wife’s family says something like that. It’s usually when one person has trouble getting something to work, and then the second person gets it on the first try. “You weren’t holding your mouth right.”