That sounds painful

We have all heard such a thing; someone breaks loose with "I am working my butt off."

I can only imagine the pain and embarrasment this causes. You see people walking around with ill-fitting pants and you realize...they have no butt. Does this also cause constipation? How do they alleviate gas build-up? I suppose on the one hand much unpleasantness is avoided...after all, flatulence of the Lingering Limburger variety is quite embarrassing if someone attributes it to you...but how can they attribute it to you if no butt is present for the malidiferous odor to emanate from?

I should also think working your butt off would remove a valued transition from your vocabulary...

"I was going to go but..." becomes "I was going to go. Instead..."

So even your sentence and paragraph structures are altered. This seems a fate worse than death so I heartily recommend that you do not, in fact, work your butt off.

This has been a public service announcement.