Phrase: happy as a clam; happy as a clam at high water

[Bill Smith]

In 1965 we sang “colder than the nipple on a witch’s tit”



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<<cold as a witch's tit>>
circa 1968, I heered it as <<colder than a witch's left tit>>. That's
frostbite territory.

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