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Something Our Parents Would Say Sh## A Brick · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: well as old saints phrases, idioms. You know those things
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  Speaker 1: preserve not only a language, but lessons in life. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Arrow. Warning, this episode, as my mother would say,
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  Speaker 1: involves a filthy mouth. We're going to use curse words
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  Speaker 1: once again. We have curse words in this episode, who
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  Speaker 1: now that we get that cleared up the subject shit
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  Speaker 1: a brick? I mean, how many people every day use
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  Speaker 1: this statement as part of their everyday street slang. Mom
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  Speaker 1: and Dad shit a brick last night when they found
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  Speaker 1: out that I stole my brother's Ford pickup. History still
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  Speaker 1: shows that the phrase shit a brick is still seen
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  Speaker 1: as being crude. Yet things are softened up a bit
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  Speaker 1: when you take note of it having clear logic while
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  Speaker 1: affecting things culturally. So what does it mean to shit
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  Speaker 1: a brick? Extreme shock, frightened, or astonished. The expression came
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  Speaker 1: into being during the early part of the nineteen hundreds.
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  Speaker 1: American soldiers and working class people adopted it in a
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  Speaker 1: way of just shit an expression, it's actually part of
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  Speaker 1: a much older bodily metaphor, linking it to a more
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  Speaker 1: human fear, the loss of bowel control. Scared shitless is
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  Speaker 1: connected to this. The word brick represents hard, heavy, and impossible,
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  Speaker 1: so to shit a brick is really kind of over
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  Speaker 1: the top. It is a bad reaction sometimes, but it's
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  Speaker 1: clear what it's trying to say. The reason why it
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  Speaker 1: stood the test of time is because it creates a
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  Speaker 1: mental image. It signals intensity. It passes the polite language barriers,
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  Speaker 1: going straight to real life human feelings. One time blue
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  Speaker 1: collar slang is now a common shorthand. For surprise, I
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  Speaker 1: mean shit a brick. We will when that team loses again,
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  Speaker 1: something our parents would say. My name is Arrow.