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Swine

Posted by Marcus on November 08, 2000

In Reply to: Swine posted by ESC on November 07, 2000

: : I'm looking for "...as common as pig tracks..." Any clues out there?

: I've read that expression a couple of times recently -- once in a novel about Texas and once in a book of Southern expressions. I don't know the origin. But it means lower class, uncouth, ill mannered.

: Many thanks. You just settled a bet with a fellow Texan. He thinks it means "butt ugly" but I maintain it means "white trash".

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