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חיים כאַפּ, מרדכי טרען!
‘Chaim grab, Mordechai screw! (an expression said in Jewish Lithuania in the 1860s when a funeral procession of an anti-Semite went by)’

חיים כאַפּ, מרדכי טרען!
'Chaim grab, Mordechai screw! (an expression said in Jewish Lithuania in the 1860s when a funeral procession of an anti-Semite went by)'

ETYMOLOGY

Aramaic היום חד ומחר תרין 'today one and tomorrow two'.