tried googling it but I only got the idiom and not an actual answer

  • LwL@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Nah, paws are specific types of appendages. Monkeys have hands. But it’s possible that back when the idiom was coined, it was different bc of that kind of logic.

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      8 days ago

      You have paws on your fucking hand and feet! Goddamn, look at your hand. You see where the center of your palm is deep, but you have raised flesh at the base of your thumb and under your pinky finger, as well as the base of your fingers?

      Dude, those are your fucking paws.

      Fuck’s sake.

      They aren’t appendages, they are attributes of the appendage. Has the world just gone crazy?

      Grip it with your paws, don’t just use your fingers: if you ever worked with your hands you would have heard that phrase.