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To go "get the stink blown off."

Posted by Red on February 28, 2002

In Reply to: To go Posted on February 09, 2002

I heard my grandad say this plenty of times in the 50's & 60's. He cleaned up & went to neighborhood bar every day, except when he was sick or the weather was so bad that he could not get out. When he finally got to go against family protests, his excuse was, "I gotta get the stink blown off."

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