If someone’s been talking about you in English, then metaphorically speaking, your ears are burning. If they were talking about you in Modern Greek, it’s said that you must have been hiccupping. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Must Be Hiccupping”
Grant, were you hiccuping a lot yesterday?
No.
I weren’t because I was talking about you.
Oh, is that something that people say?
They say it in Greece, in modern Greece.
Instead of saying your ears were burning, they say you were hiccuping.
And I love the modern Greek word for it.
It’s loxicus.
It sounds like a hiccup, doesn’t it?
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