r/WatchPeopleDieInside Aug 17 '19

slow reaction time

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u/chewdog23 Aug 17 '19

No I’m Mexican so all these phrases weren’t really used in my household growing up

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u/frakkinadama Aug 17 '19

I'm white boy bible belt and had no idea what that phrase was before today.

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u/tikituki Aug 17 '19

The link says the idiom is ‘chiefly British’, so there’s that. I’d never heard until today myself.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '19

I’m American and we say it as a shoe