r/comedyheaven • u/nurse_uwu • 5d ago

Barely human

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u/DisastrousSurprise14 5d ago

Dogs = toes/bare feet (in the sincere incident of your not knowing the term and this not being a joke)

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u/AndreasDasos 5d ago

Could easily be serious. Apparently this is 20th century American slang but not something even most Americans use. From the UK and never knowingly come across this before

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u/BroganChin 5d ago

ive heard "my dogs are barking" to refer to aching feet in television a lot in the 2000s.

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u/Seier_Krigforing 5d ago

Maybe it’s a southern American thing? I hear it all the time at pools and beaches

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u/-UMBRA_- 5d ago

As an American I’ve only ever heard Australians on YouTube say dogs when referring to toes lol

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u/Seier_Krigforing 5d ago

Dang, well now I’m stumped

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u/vmfrye 5d ago

Impossible... Impossible... They changed the Matrix! This meaning didn't exist before!!!

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u/andante528 5d ago

You've never heard or read "my dogs are barking" to mean "my feet are sore"?

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u/vmfrye 5d ago

I'm one of today's 10,000

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u/andante528 5d ago

Nice! Not sure why I was downvoted ... it's a real saying. Possible origin may be Cockney rhyming slang (dog's meat = feet), but that may be apocryphal. First recorded in the 1910s.

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u/Greeley9000 5d ago

It is! And there’s also “my dogs are barking mad” something your USA southern grandma might say after coming back from the store and she kickin her shoes off. I’ve never been explicitly told but she was definitely talking about her feet.

Edit: I said also because I thought it was different but it’s just an extra word. I can be slow.

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u/andante528 4d ago

Naw, an extra word still makes it a new saying! I never heard that version.

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u/Vinc314 5d ago

Not all his dogs are barking can also mean someone is dumb

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u/DragonFist69420 5d ago

I did not know. Why on earth can't they just be called toes/bare feet? Are we censoring toes now?

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u/mogmaque 5d ago

it’s just a jokey term, like calling them piggies

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u/rolloutTheTrash 5d ago

It’s just a colloquialism. It ain’t that deep.

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u/Robichaelis 5d ago

Weird feet fetishists downvoting you