couldn't stop a pig in a passage

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couldn't stop a pig in a passage

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  1. Yorkshire, idiomatic To be bow-legged. Joe laughed. ‘Aye, I know I'm a funny little feller. I couldn't stop a pig in a passage, could I lass? But I'm good at me job, else Eddie wouldn't have asked me to come and look at that there roof.’

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"couldn't stop a pig in a passage." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/couldn't%20stop%20a%20pig%20in%20a%20passage. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{couldn_t_stop_a_pig_in_a_passage_2026,
  title = {couldn't stop a pig in a passage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/couldn't%20stop%20a%20pig%20in%20a%20passage},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}