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As heavy as a dead priest

Posted by Susan Gilmore on August 12, 2011 at 15:28

My mother, who was from north Florida, (born 1912) often used the expression "It's as heavy as a dead priest". No one else had heard it, until a friend said her mom who grew up in CT, also used the expression. How did it get started?

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