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[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)
[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

My mom, who grew up as the seventh generation of her family in Maryland, said "the devil is beating his wife."

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago

this feels like two students were having an argument and the one who said "everyone says the devil is beating his wife" lost by a lot

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's an incredibly difficult map to decipher

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

It makes more sense when you have the background that most people don't have a term for that.

Because of course that's what you're looking for at first. But yeah, I get that the "no term" data is actual positive data that they surveyed, and they want to make that distinct from "no survey data" but...

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I grew up in the center of Mississippi. I always called it “the devil is beating his wife”. Idk why it was ever called that because there was no story; it’s just how it is.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago

We had "the devil is beating his wife behind the kitchen door with a frying pan" and sometimes really old people would finish it with "on Sunday"

I seriously have no idea where the fuck this comes from, and it's so weird and I love it

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

"Foxes getting married"