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Meaning of this phrase

  • 24-08-2011 05:05PM
    #1
    kurt largo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭


    I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this but one of my friends told me that someone used some phrase that he had never heard of before and he was wondering what it means. A girl told him that she "saw ants crawling out of his mouth" at one stage during a conversation with him and he has absolutely no idea what she meant by it (and I am equally clueless). Has anyone here ever encountered this idiom before and can you shed any light on its meaning?


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  • #2
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Was she a) a non-native speaker or b) on acid?

    I can't make any sense out of it. What do ants crawl out of?


  • #3
    kurt largo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭kurt largo


    Mmm, maybe both of those apply to her. Seriously though, yes, she is definitely not Irish; I think my friend said that she's from Singapore or Hong Kong or somewhere out that direction so maybe it's a local idiom that is not used in Europe or she might have mixed up her words.


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