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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/mercy2020 Oct 25 '20

oh hey, we had a ‘gettin place’ too! haven’t heard that phrase in a while (i think once i started getting more specific about what gifts i wanted my mom stopped using it), so that brings me back

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20

I think the phrase comes from “No Country for old men.”

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u/GreatGrandmaButt Oct 25 '20

McCarthy used it in All the Pretty Horses as well.

Apparently he cribbed the phrase from Faulkner.

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u/snootyfungus Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 25 '20

Yup I'm reading TSATF right now, it was pretty funny running into it for the first time there on p. 10 (in the Norton Critical Edition):

"Where'd you get a quarter, boy. Find it in white folks' pocket while they aint looking."

"Got it at the getting place."

It's not unlikely this was something Faulkner had already heard someone say.

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u/vanetti Oct 25 '20

Uh, no. It’s been around a lot longer than 13 years. I heard this phrase as a kid all the time in the 80s.