"Skin a bunny"

'Say goodbye to your ears' was the jumper-over-the-head phrase used when I was young!

My grandma made a liberty bodice for my doll so we matched!

Grannyjacq1

'Say goodbye to your ears' was the jumper-over-the-head phrase used when I was young!

Ouch!
That phrase brings the pain back of having a jumper with a too tight neck hole in!

Yes, I remember my mum saying “skin a bunny”, I said it to my children & I say it to the grandchildren too 🐇

We used to say 'Hands up stick em up don't forget to pick em up!'

Maybe we were odd?

I also had to wear a liberty bodice but we rarely ate rabbit and certainly never skinned one!

“Like a skinned rabbit” in our house too. I also love rabbit but I can’t to this day replicate my mother’s rabbit stew with Yorkshire pudding seasoned with sage and onion. It was beyond delicious. They serve something very close in one of our local pubs, and it is always my go to dish.

Indigo8

Yes, but my mum used to say "Skin a rabbit". Maybe she said this version because she didn't like us using childish names for animals like gee-gee. I never understood why.

Probably because why do uou need to learn multiple words for the same thing?

What is wrong with cat, rabbit, pig? ......(and penis, vulva etc?)

Re the original question - peeling a tightish vest off a child is just like skinning a rabbit (as others have said) where the skin comes off in the same way.

I said "Skin a rabbit" when I peeled my grandson's vest over his head last week 😄 I've always said it to my children and grandchildren - just as my Mum said it to me - but I think that it'll soon be gone, as he's the youngest, and has started to insist that he can dress and undress himself...😥

valdali the last time I actually did skin a rabbit was when I was a student.

The boyfriend of one of my flatmates brought some in and we did it together. I was vegetarian by then but I couldn't bear to think k what a waste it was otherwise. We made an enormous stew for (maybe) 10 of us.
I had a beany stew instead.

Mum only said ‘ you look like a skinned rabbit’ if I wore anything tight ( and I was a skinny kid and teenager)🐰

yogitree

I'm in Scotland and if I came home drookit (soaking wet) from the rain, my mother would say I looked like a skinned rabbit.

Mine said we looked like dying sheep in a thunderstorm!

My great-aunt said "skin a rabbit" when she undressed us when we were small.

I fear my delicate grandchildren would be horrified if I used this phrase...

DW said "skin a rabbit" to our children. I imagine she got it from her mother. Don't recall my mother ever saying it.

Skin a rabbit.

I automatically say it to my grandchildren when dressing them too!

My aunt was born in 1925 and at 15 got her first job in a butchers . One day a customer asked her for a rabbit and requested that he would like it dressed . She took a rabbit into the back of the shop and went missing for several minutes . Eventually the boss came looking for her and found her trying to stuff the rabbit into its fur coat ! The boss and the customer found it hilarious and the customer insisted his rabbit was left in its coat so he could take it home and show his wife .
My aunt passed thirty years ago but this always comes to mind when anyone talks about rabbits as food .

Yes mum also used to say 'skin a rabbit' when getting undressed. However, as a then vegetarian - and now vegan - i would say 'skinny rabbits' which makes no sense whatsoever but for me better than the original saying. My kids still say 'skinny rabbits' to theirs too!

Skin a rabbit from my childhood too. Never used it myself with my own children though.

yes mum always said it to me and me to my children. mind when older grandchildren heard me say it to the tiny ones I think they think I have gone mad!
I don't think they are far wrong as I say it to my dog taking off his jumper style top!

When I was tying my own fishing flies, I sent away to a tying supplies shop for hares ear fur. To my horror I received the dressed mask of a hare complete with the ears!! I couldn’t even look at it let alone use it, so I sent it back!

NotSpaghetti

Indigo8

Yes, but my mum used to say "Skin a rabbit". Maybe she said this version because she didn't like us using childish names for animals like gee-gee. I never understood why.

Probably because why do uou need to learn multiple words for the same thing?

What is wrong with cat, rabbit, pig? ......(and penis, vulva etc?)

Re the original question - peeling a tightish vest off a child is just like skinning a rabbit (as others have said) where the skin comes off in the same way.

Yes, it didn't stop there. We urinated, defaecated and had an umbilicus as well as using the proper words for everything else.
All a bit pointless if you ask me.

Always skin a rabbit in our family. But more ways to skin a cat when talking about different methods.

No never. And I am glad I didn't. I don't like the implications.

MissAdventure

What did you keep in the pocket?
It must have got sweaty, with that lot on!

My sister used the knickers pocket for bits of school lunch she didn't like, figs frequently ended up there.