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[–] 71 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I was still young when I first stayed out too late one evening fucking around with some friends in the neighborhood and my mom grounded me when I got home. Trouble was she didn't realize that "grounding" someone is an idiom and I thought she was going to bury me alive. Pretty sure she didn't understand why I was crying.

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  • [–] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    "I made you, I can unmake you."

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I grew up with that idiom and understanding what it meant, and then I went to flight school where being grounded has a more literal meaning. So my question: Was the childhood punishment named after disqualification from flight status or was the term in use before 1903 with a different origin?

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