"brim for a fight" -- I'm done

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:05 AM -0400 4/17/07, Doug Harris wrote:
>The phrase 'I'm done' often is preceded, around here, with 'Stick a fork in
>me'. Is that common elsewhere?
>(the other) doug

Yes, but not in the below sense (= 'I've completed that task'), only
when the meaning is more like 'eliminated', as when a team is
eliminated from contention:  "Stick a fork in them, they're done".
YMMV.

LH

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>One more: "Brimmin' for a trimmin'."
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>   I'm done.
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>   JL
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