"If you don't like what's for dinner, you can go back to chopping wood".
The house was heated with wood, in the day, so it had a literal, but also
symbolic meaning. This is what's for dinner, eat or go hungry.
"I'll give you something to be bored about...." It only took a couple of
times hearing this (or hear it said to my older siblings) for me to not
ever say I was bored. I'd be sent off to weed or chop wood or some other
mundane, but necessary chore. I was always shocked when I heard other
kids say this, cuz in our house, 'bored' was a curse word.
Susan Beamer
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Eastern Washington State
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