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It itches and it burns but I still go to work every morning

Popularized by James S. Murray in the famous hidden camera tv show Impractical Jokers. This was said during his punishment where he was forced to read strange lines from flash cards during a speech.

The phrase can also be shortened to, “it itches and it burns”. This is most commonly used as a response to being asked to do something.
Craig: Hey Phil, I need those papers on my desk by the end of the day.

Phil: But it itches and burns sooooo.

or

Phil: But it itches and burns but I still go to work every morninggggg.

In this situation it clearly displays that Phil doesn’t feel like doing those papers.

It itches and it burns but I still go to work every morning: A slang and informal way to tell someone that you do not want to do what they are telling you.
by ItItchesAndBurns43 December 29, 2023
mugGet the It itches and it burns but I still go to work every morningmug.

My own work

No you are making shit up because you want to tell yourself that but I said my ideas were better and they are. My rhetoric. My argument. You used it to get Trump elected. So they ARE better because I AM better. Than you. Fucking Kim Kardashian. Taylor Swift. Every name on the list and you were more concerned with YOUR OWN CELEBRITY than MY THING and now there is very real possibility that you both murdered Liam Payne and failed to prevent perfectly preventable child-murder. Right? Like, I stopped my child murder and my suicide guy. Like... What were you doing this whole time that you didn't say your child from the murder? Stealing my ideas and living off the proceeds of my wildly superior mind-brain? Some of you are. Some of you WERE doing that.
Hym "No the money comes from my own work and you are lying and making shit up to sandbag me because the second your fans find out about the cover-up and what you're been doing for the past 4 years then you are DONE-ZO! You didn't save your child murder kids. I did. I saved my suicide guy. You got Suchir Balaji, my AI whistleblower, kill or made him kill himself because you greedy fucks are trying to scavenge off my thing. So no fucking AI copyright shit for any of YOU."
by Hym Iam October 5, 2025
mugGet the My own workmug.

prep-work

Generally applied to preparation routines associated with sodomy. Usually consisting of the hosing out of the bowels and lubing up like a the asshole is made of banana peel insides.
Kyle asked for anal, but I let him know there would be a lot of prep-work required if he didn’t want to bathe in shit and blood.
by Johnson’s Son March 9, 2022
mugGet the prep-workmug.

gods work

im out at my little sisters birthday doing gods work”
by SmugV September 13, 2021
mugGet the gods workmug.

Sending jerry to work

"Oh yeah he was sending Jerry to work" said Joey
"Who's jerry" asked Jake
"You'll never know" responded Joey
by glfoster16 November 5, 2020
mugGet the Sending jerry to workmug.

giving up the work

When someone is exposing the sauce/technique/secret/pro-tip/the way you live
Telling the police where the drugs at are at. “Man jack is giving up the work to the police!”
by Xstrife September 23, 2023
mugGet the giving up the workmug.

Work

Pay for work? Labor? Intellectual property that amounts to more that YOU ever could have accomplished or will accomplish EVER for the reason of your life?
Hym "Yes. I expect you to pay for work and these people ARE NOT GOING TO FEEL BAD FOR YOUR DEAD KIDS WHEN I TAKE THEM AS A CONSOLATION PRIZE IF I DO NOT GET THAT MONEY."
by Hym Iam June 27, 2025
mugGet the Workmug.

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