fart in a mitten
n.— «Sure sounds funny to the wife and me to hear our grandchildren spittin’ out the Portuguese to one another and them no bigger than a fart in a mitten.» —by Alden Nowlan Various Persons Named Kevin O’Brien: A Fictional Memoir (Toronto, Canada) , 1973. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks (Bookshop|Amazon) is about the foodways and folkways passed down through five generations of a Black Appalachian family. The book, by novelist and...
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