Herding pigs together

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in German, when you want to object to someone addressing you with the familiar "du" (as in "thou" in English) instead of the polite "sie" (= "vous" in French but dissimilar in English) you say:

"Haben wir schon zusammen Schweine gehütet?"

(Have we been herding pigs together?)

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In Kentucky, same thing, except it’s “we dug coal together”.

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