Family traditions can be wordy

Language can be as unique to families as fingerprints, whether it’s an adage or a mispronounced, or completely invented, word.
Some language gets adapted into families because it’s passed down from the older generations. In our family, when any of us were sick, my grandmother would say, “Your eyes look like two pee-holes in a snowbank.”
I now have a vivid picture of what my face looks like when I have a cold, and a desire to make the same observation about sick people whe