Sunday, March 21, 2010

shot wid tacks

"...Ah'd rathur be shot wid tacks..."

Page 24.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

"Shot wid tacks" is an expression that was used to mean that she would rather be tortured or hurt than to do something she didn't want to do.

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