Heard on Springer

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
> I'm reading "you got your toe's wet" as, you fooled around
> superficially: using a swimming metaphor instead of a baseball metaphor
> for how much he's violated their monogamous relationship.
>

To what "baseball metaphor" do you refer?

FWIW, I've also heard, "get one's feet damp," clearly, I daresay, a
trivial modification for effect of "get one's toes we." Unless the
modification proceeded in the other direction.

Youneverknow.

"[T]he phrase is going to signify different acts in different contexts."

That's true of any phrase. Surely, you don't mean that my use of
"clearly" means that, IMO, the phrase in question has a fixed meaning?
That, e.g.  the recent spate of "That's what s/he said" innuendoes
passeth my understanding?

Oh, well. "The only thing that I *have* to do is to stay black and
die," as the saying goes.

--
-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

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