tried googling it but I only got the idiom and not an actual answer

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[–] -3 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

No. You have paws on your hands. Look at your hand. Grip it with your paws: common expression.

See the dip in the middle of your palm? See how there are little mountains around it? THOSE ARE YOUR PAWS.

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  • [–] 10 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    you are the only person who has ever said this

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    I could believe that it might be a local or even vocation-specific phrase (see "southpaw" in boxing, for example), but the doubling down instead of questioning whether their take might be hyperspecific or plain wrong is hilarious.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago

    My charitable explaination is that he worked in the trades for a long time and is confusing an extremely local phrase ("grip with your paw") with actual definition of the word.

    One construction team I worked with a lot when I did trades called 2x4s "tooths" (two four -> twofer -> tooths) along with a bunch of other jargon. My team (AV/IT) called small screwdrivers "tweaks." When you work with the same people long enough, you come up with your own jokes and phrases....

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