V is for Violin (a very small one)
I have a gesture I make to my children whenever they are being particularly whiney. It involves my index finger and my thumb rubbing together. I tell them I am playing the world’s smallest violin. In other words get over it.
I have no idea where this gesture originated. My husband has done it as well, so it is not just my family.
Do you have any quirky sayings or gestures that you have no idea where they came from?
I know where they come from. A saying in my family is "black creek", which means a story we've heard a million times before. My father told us his black creek story too many times to count and it had no point to it. lol
ReplyDeletewhat a funny gesture! i think it comes from those movies where a sad violin is playing while someone is telling their sad story.
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