throwing up my socks

[James Smith]

"Puke my (your) socks off" is the phrase I'm familiar with.

James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.


--- On Fri, 5/23/08, Barbara Need <bhneed at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: Barbara Need <bhneed at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: throwing up my socks
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 1:39 PM
> A friend of mine just said that she spent Wednesday
> "throwing up my
> socks". She is about 40 and grew up in Peoria, IL. She
> says she
> thought it was pretty common. There is one hit on Google.
> Does any
> one else know this phrase?
>
> Barbara Need
> Chicago
>
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