"Skin a bunny"

If you see a little bunny with its nose all green and runny you mustn't think it funny cos its snot

Whingey

My MiL's sisteriL, a farmers daughter who used to trap rabbits., showed me how to skin and eviscerate a rabbit - you have the get the bile duct out whole, I fit breaks the bile tainst the meat.

I have never yet needed to use this skill. But come the apocalypse, it may yet, still be a usefuls skill to have. (if I could rememeber it)

My mum used to say skin a rabbit when undressing me when I was little. I said it to my girls when they were small too. During the war we kept chickens and rabbits. The rabbits were for food and for their fur. My granny taught my dad how to kill both chickens and rabbits and how to cure the rabbit skins, I had a rabbit skin pram cover and a fur bonnet when I was a baby.

That's a phrase I haven't heard for years! My Gran used to say "skin a bunny-rabbit" when helping me get undressed.

I'd stick my arms in the air and she'd pull off my top or vest.

I'd never really thought about the reality, but she lived on farms and smallholdings for many many years!

My lovely MIL used to say “skin a bunny rabbit” when undressing her GCs for a bath.
She was a ‘critical care baby nurse’ she probably said it to all her honorary babies too.

Skin a rabbit was used for getting undressed
Drowned rat when we were soaking wet
More than one way to kill a cat when the first try didn’t solve a problem.
I was told that a liberty bodice was called that because it was used to keep you warm without the restrictions of a corset and extra layers. I remember that the really posh ones came in packs with a picture of Peter Pan or the crocodile on them.

Skin a rabbit! Not heard that for years! Both my grandma and mother says this.

And until now I never actually thought about what it literally meant!

Yes, my mum said 'Skin a rabbit'!
I also remember her cooking one, but have never attempted that myself...

As a Lincolnshire lass, this was a well known saying, to us kids from our parents and passed down to generation after.