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Meaning of this phrase

kurt largo · 2011-08-24 16:05:39

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…

24-08-2011 5:05pm

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kurt largo

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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 25-08-2011 1:48pm

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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?

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#3 25-08-2011 2:32pm

kurt largo

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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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