It was a colloquialism. Not that you would know what that means.
Keep your horror stories to yourself, old man. No one wants to hear that shit.
English
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A saying that expresses something other than the literal meaning of the words it contains is a colloquialism, like saying "I wasn't born yesterday," to mean "you can't fool me."
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I believe 'colloquialism' is an old old wooden ship back from the Spanish civil war era. And you sir are what we call 'San Diego' in Spanish.