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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