The phrase don’t worry, it’ll be a pig’s foot in the morning is meant to comfort or reassure a child who’s stubbed her toe or scraped her knee or suffered some other minor injury. This expression is especially common in Northern England. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “It’ll Be a Pig’s Foot in the Morning”
We had a voicemail from Judith Leonard who said that when she was a little girl and she injured herself, stubbed her toe or scraped her knee, her grandmother would comfort her by saying, oh, don’t worry, it’ll be a pig’s foot in the morning.
That’s helpful.
There’s so many things that are great about that. You know, I mean, it just stops the kids short, right? Right, right. And maybe they’re intrigued. Maybe they want to see if that will happen.
I didn’t think about that. I just think it would be so disconcerting. But I did a little digging, and this is apparently quite common, especially in northern England and Liverpool.
Very nice. Don’t worry. It’ll be a pig’s foot in the morning.
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