ext_36709 ([identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ladyofastolat 2008-04-03 09:30 pm (UTC)

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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