a fictional spider to cover up the word of a rancid ass ripper
*someone smells a rancid rip* it must be the Pennsylvania Barking Spider, i heard theyre terrible this time of the year.
The phrase "that's my bark to peel" refers to an artistic concept wherein an artist is to decide the meaning and content of their art. It can also be used in a similar way to "that's my axe to grind", meaning that it's your business to deal with.
"That's my bark to peel" as in "that's my art to create", "that's my bark to peel" as in "I dictate the meaning of my piece". In some ways this idiom can lie directly contrary to the artistic concept of The Death of the Author, a concept which has the viewer as the decider on the pieces meaning.
This idiom was created by Canadian writers Andy Zuliani and Cassie Mifflin based off Mifflin's short story "Cold Pudding and the Last Great Maritimer" wherein she included a line after her bark was stolen by artist Ruben Moller where she said "That's my bark to peel". Andy would then go on to coin the phrase's meaning while discussing her work and then further what that moment meant, telling her that "If a professor is ever making you tear apart your work more than you'd like, just tell them 'that's my bark to peel.'"
Andy: "If a professor is ever making you tear apart your work more than you'd like, just tell them 'that's my bark to peel.'"
It means talking incessantly and or to anyone and anything, e.g. girls/guysbwho don't reply, celebrities (via social media) who don't even know if your existence.
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"That guy never stops talking. He could bark up a tree."
Original coinage:
*replies to 5 story posts with paragraphs, receives only an emoji reaction*
"I could bark up a tree *country accent*"
Person 1: ayo check this out! (Proceeds to break shit)
Person 2: bro shut the fuck up! You bark ass nigga.
Code word for an audible fart in a public place.
Person 1: *Farts* Man did you hear that barking tree frog?
Person 2: You’re nasty.
Another word for NIGGER!
The barking tree spiders are thick in here this evening.
This is a term used when your feet are hurting. The dawgs refer to the feet, commonly confused with the toes.
After walking in all that slime my dawgs are barking