I don't know that one, but I had a gf whose Black Country mother rebuked fidgeters with "Stop otching!" I've not come across "otch" elsewhere, before or since.
Actually, your expression reminds me of a line from The Dukes of Hazzard, though possibly not original to it: "Busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."
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Date: 2008-04-03 09:30 pm (UTC)Actually, your expression reminds me of a line from The Dukes of Hazzard, though possibly not original to it: "Busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs."