Heard on The Boondocks

[Victor Steinbok]

Why the whole container and not just the top [opening]--head?

VS-)

On 1/24/2011 1:31 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> Robert "Granddad" Freeman:
>
> "Boy, don't be drinking my orange juice straight out the carton! Get
> you a glass!
>
> Riley "Li'l Reezi" Freeman, pausing in his drinking straight from the carton:
>
> "I don't need no glass, Grandad. I _takes_ mine _through the head_!"
>
> then going back to drinking straight from the carton.
>
>
> In context,
>
> _take through the head_
>
> appears to mean,
>
> "drink a liquid straight from its container."
>
> Not in UD.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> –Mark Twain
>
> --
> -Wilson

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