Please help with this saying ' Over the lips, past the gums'
I saw it in 'Lost'. When Hurley were going to eat some sea urchin reluctantly, he said this and swallowed the sea food. What does it mean?

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It's kind of a toast thing, a rhyme that basically means that he ingested the food - put it in his mouth and it went further down past the gums - the pinkish-red flesh at the base of your teeth.

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