Victoria from Tallahassee, Florida, weighs in on our discussion about terms for an extremely quick bath. When Victoria was young, her great-great grandmother from Poland, when checking if Victoria had indeed washed herself, would ask, “Did you spit in the air and jump through it?” This is part of a complete episode.
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We are still getting responses from listeners who want to tell us the words and phrases they use to describe a quick bath.
Oh, yeah.
We heard from Victoria Campbell, who lives in Tallahassee, Florida, and she remembers her great-great-grandmother from Poland using a particular phrase in English.
If she was asking Victoria, did you take a quick bath just now? What she would say is, did you spit in the air and jump through it?
I think I’ve heard versions of that before.
Yeah, yeah.
Other people wrote us with the same phrase, but I love that.
Spit in the air and jump through it. That was a quick bath.
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