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Tue Mar-08-05 03:08 AM
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Regional sayings..do you know what they mean? |
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Since I moved to Oklahoma a few years ago, I found that some of the sayings I grew up with (in the Southeast of the US) were not to be found here. And, there were a few here, that I had never heard. So, post a saying, and see if someone knows what it is.
"The devil is beating his wife." Do you know what it means? I do! :)
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Tue Mar-08-05 03:25 AM
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Tue Mar-08-05 03:28 AM
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Tue Mar-08-05 03:38 AM
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3. Can't think of any more at the moment |
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My Dad, who grew up in Southern Illinois always used that phrase.
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Tue Mar-08-05 03:54 AM
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"stayed until the last dog was hung"
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:23 AM
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:24 AM
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overstayed your welcome? Or closed the bar?
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:40 AM
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Last one to stumble home from a party.
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:32 AM
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11. Had to google it. I've never heard that one. |
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These regional sayings are disappearing fast! :(
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Tue Mar-08-05 03:58 AM
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5. "Rode hard and put away wet" |
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Tue Mar-08-05 08:02 AM
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21. My grandmother uses this one |
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to suggest that someone looks rough, or hasn't aged well.
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:17 AM
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6. One I heard from an old Irish priest. |
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I'm not sure what he meant. "Your father loved you more than your mother."
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Wed Mar-09-05 12:11 AM
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That either your dad was molesting you or the "father" priest was. As we all know the Irish catholics are known for the pope, drinking and molesting. Too harsh? Sorry, I am Irish catholic. Or was as a child.
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:22 AM
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As in: "Don't use the good scissors".
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:43 AM
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13. Hey, I have good scissors! |
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:50 AM
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14. Do you let anyone use them? |
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Hahahahahaha
I guess if you did they wouldn"t be the "good scissors". What do you use for "everyday scissors"?....Two butter knives taped together?
Hahaha...Just kidding, I grew up in a house with "sacred shears".
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Tue Mar-08-05 05:32 AM
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15. My good scissors are hidden in my sewing box |
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No one but me gets to even look at them.
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Tue Mar-08-05 04:26 AM
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10. Like buyin' a pig in poke! |
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This comes from a region of the country where a closet is sometimes called a "press". :hi:
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Tue Mar-08-05 05:34 AM
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16. "It;'s wicked good." and others... |
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Edited on Tue Mar-08-05 05:43 AM by caledesi
Boston - wicked (meaning good) Grinder - RI - (it's a hoagie, sub etc). RI (& other areas in RI)(Coffee, regular (if you order a regular coffee in RI, that means coffee, cream and sugar.) How about a "Frappé?" - milkshake w/ ice cream (RI) "Cold as a witch's tit." RI - very cold weather If a car hits another car etc. - it's an accident, not a wreck. RI and NE
I love regional terms.
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Tue Mar-08-05 07:44 AM
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Tue Mar-08-05 05:55 PM
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Bostonese for soda;
"Upstreet" and "Downstreet," New Englandese for, respectively, away from the center of town, and toward the center of town.
"Jeezly" (an adjective), more common in the part of Vermont where I grew up than the more well-known "Jeezum."
In northern Vermont and New Hampshire, ground beef is not "hamburger," it's "hamburg."
Many older New Englanders still use "receipt" for "recipe."
More later, if I have time.
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:08 PM
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27. We have grinders here in CT too. |
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At least the SE part. Don't Rhode Islander's drink that coffee milk too? They sell the syrup here but I have never tried it. I do like the Autocrat coffe though.
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:16 PM
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31. "Bang" a Uey: Make a U-Turn |
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Elastic=Rubber Band Barrel=Trash Can Bubbler=Water Fountain Bullshit=Very Angry Gravy=Red Sauce Carriage=Shopping Cart Divan=Couch, Sofa Grinder=Sub Half Moon=Black and White Cookie Jimmies=Sprinkles (on ice cream)
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:26 PM
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:35 PM
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38. We say "doing an onion" or |
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"doing an onion-baller" for a U-turn; also "hang a uey."
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Tue Mar-08-05 07:42 AM
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17. "As useless as tits on a boar hog." |
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From rural Arkansas, of course. And one of my Grandmother's favorites: "I need that about like a chigger needs a sidesaddle."
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Tue Mar-08-05 05:40 PM
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24. Useless as hen shit on a pump handle. |
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:09 PM
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29. "Useless as nuts on a priest." |
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:09 PM
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28. My fiance says "as useless as |
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Tue Mar-08-05 07:55 AM
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heard this in se texas a lot: "if you don't get your big bohunkus down from there, i'm on pull a sweetch!"
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Tue Mar-08-05 07:58 AM
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multipurpose, texas.
if someone asks you a question and you don't understand.
"skeeter, i want you to get up that tower and check the loader."
"do what?"
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Tue Mar-08-05 05:23 PM
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22. Now that's a funny one! Never heard it. nt |
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Tue Mar-08-05 05:33 PM
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23. He's more than " a quarter bubble off". |
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Edited on Tue Mar-08-05 05:39 PM by MissMarple
Plainer than a goat's ass uphill. Faster than salts through a widder woman.
:shrug:
Also Bat out of hell, as in... He tore through here like a bat outa hell.
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:03 PM
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26. Whatever flips your skirt up. Don't get your panties in a bunch. |
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:12 PM
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30. Or your knickers in a twist. |
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:18 PM
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32. What I get teased for: |
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"Hotdish" - to me, this seems self-explanatory, but I get puzzled looks ALLLLL the time.
"I'm going <such and such place>; do you want to come with?" Again, this seems self-explanatory to me, but apparently it's such a Minnesota-ism that non-Minnesotans like to rake me over the coals for it. "Come with what?" they'll say. With ME. To the place I am going.
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:20 PM
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33. "and that.." A Chicagoism |
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"So we went to see Star Wars and that"
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:30 PM
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35. Also in St. Louis. ..and that, ...and like that. |
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Brother-in-law says it ALL the time, especially the second form.
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:33 PM
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37. "and all . . . " if you're in Michigan |
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"Hotdish" is a casserole here, although I know people who use hotdish.
"Coke" refers to pretty much all kinds of soda, even Coke. :)
"Stoked" means acting wild and crazy.
"Acting like a dip" means acting like an idiot (which makes the signs "dip in the road" funny).
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Tue Mar-08-05 06:31 PM
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36. "2 bales short of a wagonload" |
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Used to describe someone who's not too bright.
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Wed Mar-09-05 12:16 AM
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And that don't mean I'm repairing anything, unless of course I'm fixin' to repair something.
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