Stepmother’s blessing is a slang term for hangnail. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Stepmother’s Blessing”
When it comes to lots of languages, stepmothers get a bad rap.
Do you know what a stepmother’s blessing is?
I don’t know.
It’s a hangnail.
So it’s not a blessing for the stepmother?
Oh, it’s the thing that she blesses on you.
Yeah, that’s what I think.
Oh, I see.
So it’s more like a curse by another name, an ironic name.
That’s what I’m thinking.
Hangnail.
Okay, that makes some sense.
Yep.
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This very interesting because in Spanish a hangnail is often n called a Padrastro , which means stepfather .