Please help with this saying ' Over the lips, past the gums' I saw it in 'Lost'. When Hurley were going to eat some sea urchin reluctantly, he said this and swallowed the sea food. What does it mean? Answers · 2 It's kind of a toast thing, a rhyme that basically means that he ingested the food - put it in his mouth and it went further down past the gums - the pinkish-red flesh at the base of your teeth. Still haven’t found your answers? Write down your questions and let the native speakers help you!  ☰ Thinking Of You Memes Mon Nov 6 03:07:29 UTC 2006
The version I heard back in the mists of time (about 1970) was "Past the teeth and over the gums: look out, stomach, here it comes." JL Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote: ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- Sender: American Dialect Society Poster: Wilson Gray Subject: Re: "Past the gums, look out stomach, here it comes" (1930) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oddly enough, the versions that I've heard use "tummy." And, despite the cite from my state of birth, I first heard it in 'Fifties Saint Louis. Oops! I forgot. My birthplace is in a dry county, hence, no sayings WRT to booze. Texas allows - or once allowed - prohibition by county. -Wilson On 11/5/06, Bapopik at aol.com wrote: > ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- > Sender: American Dialect Society > Poster: Bapopik at AOL.COM > Subject: "Past the gums, look out stomach, here it comes" (1930) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > My wife was watching A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT and this eating/drinking line > was used. Does Fred have it? > ... > ... > ... > (GOOGLE BOOKS) > _Eats: A Folk History of Texas Foods - Page x_ > (http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN087565035X&id=Knu0Xn2iJb4C&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq="look+out+stomach"&ie= > ISO-8859-1&sig=7qeB9m8PY69r0QBpVvNY3G8Yh4o) > by Ernestine P. Sewell, Ernestine Sewall Linck, Joyce Gibson Roach - 1992 - > 257 pages > ... x Instead of blessing some merely anticipate the eats: Over the lips and > past > the gums Look out, stomach, here it comes. But it is most common to bless > ... > ... > ... > ... > 16 September 1930, Chicago Daily Tribune, "A Line O' Type Or Two, pg. 14: > Past the lips, across the gums, > Look out stomach, here it comes. > A KNOX TEKE. > ... > ... > 11 November 1930, Southtown Economist (Chicago, IL), pg. 4, col. 6: > SOME doctor with a bit of Shakespeare, James Whitcomb Riley, and Sam Hellman > in his makeup, composed on a quiet afternoon, or perhaps it was an evening, > this thrilling verse: > "Over the teeth and through the gums, > Down the red alley and through the lungs, > Look out, stomach, here she comes." > ... > ... > 18 September 1956, Long Beach (CA) Press- Telegram, pg. B9, col. 1: > "Through the lips, past the gums, look out stomach, here it comes!" > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org > -- Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ----- Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. --Sam Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org --------------------------------- Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the new Yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
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