A listener reports that her Brooklyn-born mother used to exclaim, upon seeing something remarkable, “Don’t that jar your preserves?” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Don’t That Jar Your Preserves?”
My friend Iris introduced me to an expression that she learned from her mother who grew up in Brooklyn and it’s don’t that jar your preserves. That’s good pun on jar, right? Yeah, yeah, it’s kind like one of those paraprosdokian statements we’ve talked about before.
You think it’s going to say one thing, but it takes a detour and says another.
Yeah.
Don’t that jar your preserves? I mean, don’t that get your goat or don’t that surprise you?
Yeah.
How about that?
How about that?
Yeah.
How about that?
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