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Lick your own calf

Posted by ESC on February 23, 2009 at 13:16

In Reply to: Lick your own calf posted by Tom on February 23, 2009 at 10:14:

: Lick your own calf; in North Alabama, Sand Mtn, I've heard he/she will have to lick his/her own calf now - indicating the person must clean up the mess/problem they have caused, no one will help them.

Interesting. I've never heard that expression. In West Virginia (Alabama too -- see www.phrases.org.uk bulletin_board 1 messages 2626.html ), we said, "You're going to have to lick your calf over," meaning re-do a job." And for anyone who wasn't raised on a farm, it refers to a cow licking her calf.

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