When someone’s fly is down, do you say XYZ for “Examine your zipper”? For a change of pace, you might try another euphemistic expression used the Southern United States and South Midlands: Is your finger sore? As in, Is your finger too sore to zip up your pants? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sore Finger”
We’ve talked many times on the show about euphemisms when you’re trying to call someone’s attention to something but nobody else in the room.
For example, we might say you have a bat in the cave for if you have something in your nose.
Or if your zipper is down, you might say X, Y, Z or something.
Right, your Monday is longer than your Tuesday.
Right, right, for your slip.
Yeah, right.
And I came across a great one the other day in our beloved Dictionary of American Regional English that goes, is your finger sore?
Oh.
And I just love it because it’s sort of this great surreptitious way of saying, is your finger too sore to zip up your pants?
But I never heard that before, and I just like how innocuous it sounds.
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