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...or wind his wristwatch

Posted by ESC on March 01, 2002

In Reply to: **** or go blind posted by R. Berg on March 01, 2002

: : "He didn't know whether to **** or go blind", as a euphemism for an impossible situation. Does anyone know where this phrase came from? It has been used for at least a couple of decades in Canada.

: My husband says it's a common expression meaning "He didn't know what to do" and applies equally when someone faces an insurmountable problem and when someone faces an ordinary problem but is totally incompetent. He probably heard it in the U.S. Navy, which he left in 1981.

Variation: He didn't know whether to sh*t or wind his wristwatch.

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