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My boss always uses the phrase " If I were any better, I'd be backin' up" to say he is in a good mood. Everyone on the other end always laughs and says they are glad to hear he is doing well, but none of my co-workers know what he means when he says this and none of us had heard it prior to working for him. I was wondering if anyone else had heard this phrase and if so if they knew what it meant exactly or where it came from?
Thanks for the help!
At a certain age, one becomes acutely aware of his mortality. Every year, I go downhill a little - and if you were a little more aware, you'd realize that you started going downhill in your twenties.
I figure that if I can drag my feet enough to stay in one place, it's a major victory. Most days, I seem to be going downhill faster than the prior day.
Your boss is lying to himself, but it would be a career-limiting move to remind him that physical and mental disability are crouching behind the shrubbery, ready to bushwhack him.
I think Deacon B got it pretty much right but he went around the barn to explain it and because of that, it seems Robert misunderstood the explanation. "Backin' up" boils down to "getting younger." There's no self deprecation, and worry about mortality is the last thing this saying would imply.
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