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Originally Posted by NoBoxes
A double bagger - One for them and one for you just in case theirs falls off!
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From my Navy time, and haven't much heard it anywhere else, except from my Navy-retiree wife who heard it there too:
Piggly Wiggly three-bagger takes a touch of explanation as to its antecedents. Piggly Wiggly is a fairly widely distributed grocery store chain, mostly in the Old South; thus, paper grocery bags, along with the obvious suggestion about this ungainly sex partner you're putting up with. One bag for you and two over her head, just in case her first bag tears open!
Late in her Navy years, my wife once delivered herself of the expletive, "Son of a syphilitic slime-dog!" in public hearing. A little later, a couple of callow young seamen sidled up to her to ask for a repeat, that they might take notes. Ah, educating the young and eager...
Lock, stock, and barrel -- precisely synonymous with
hook, line, and sinker. Lists the main components of a flintlock rifle.
A Southernism:
eat up with (something) -- suffering greatly, said with a strong, groaning emphasis on "up." "I'm about eat
up with the dumb-ass" isn't about anybody but oneself: "boy, was I fucking stupid!" -- rightly said if you just deliberately tried to drive your classic-car hot-rod over a new sinkhole and you're watching its taillights just going under. "How's the arthritis?" "I'm about eat up with it."
Airhead continues to develop: "Blow in my ear, honey, I need a refill." "If you stuck a pressure gauge in her ear, it'd draw about 790 Torr." In even worse mental case than the kind of thing Eeyore railed about re the unintelligent: ". . .just have some gray fluff in their heads that got blown in by mistake."
My uncle reports from his time working in the UK for Procter and Gamble that "all set" in the sense of "we have enough" was a phrase that Englishmen didn't understand; telling a waitress inquiring if there was anything else she might get them that "no thanks, we're all set" left her nonplused.