![]() ![]() Sometimes such exclamations come back to haunt us, especially when they’re repeated out of context. Something we never meant to be taken literally, words we later came to rue. Origins: We’ve all said in a fit of anger When she returned, the porthole was open, the baby was gone, and her daughter slept blissfully. ![]() In desperation, she shouted: “If you don’t shut up, I’ll put you out of the porthole.” This seemed to quiet the child, and she went for her meal. She was trying to settle them in their bunks for the night so that she could go off for dinner, but the baby refused to stop crying. He almost bled to death.Īt the beginning of the war, a young mother sailed for Ireland with her two young children, a girl of five and a baby of two. So one day, when the children’s mother was away, the boy wet again, and the girl took up a pair of shears and cut it off. Unfortunately, she was overheard by the boy’s older sister. Despite scoldings, he resisted toilet training until his exasperated mother warned: “If you don’t learn, I’m going to cut if off.” The most horrible tale I remember concerned “the little boy who wet.” Depending on the version, he was two or three years old. ![]()
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