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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: STiG
Date: October 22, 2021, 5:57 am
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Just read one in a different thread that I've always liked:
She's gone daffy, referring to dementia setting in. I kind of
like that one.
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: oogyda
Date: October 22, 2021, 7:50 am
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--- Quote from: Snowfire link ---
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> Bass ackwards was common in our house.
>
> Someone has their tail over the dashboard. - Reference to
horse & buggy days, if the horse got it's tail over the dash of
the buggy, unhappiness was the result.
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> Couldn't stop a pig in a passage. - referring to someone who
was very bowlegged
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> I may remember more later...
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Having their tail over the dashboard always meant conceited or
full of oneself whenever I've heard it. But it's been awhile.
#Post#: 71121--------------------------------------------------
Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: Aleko
Date: October 22, 2021, 9:45 am
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DH's family are several-generations-of Royal Marines from
Chatham (you pronounce that 'Cha'em, with a glottal stop).
Chatham has been for centuries not only a naval dockyard but the
home of a division of Royal Marines and the Royal School of
Military Engineering, so you'd expect the local patois to
include plenty of Services slang, and so it does - words like
oggin for 'sea' (as in, 'it fell into the oggin'), ovies for
overalls and gash for rubbish, or something unwanted '(a gash
piece of plywood').
But iI was gobsmacked when I first heard DH refer to liquid
medicine as 'jollop'. It's a form of jalap, a purgative drug
extracted from a Mexican plant, Ipomoea purga, which was very
widely used in 18th and early 19th century Britain (when it was
felt that a good clean-out of your digestive tract would cure
most things). I knew the word from the literature of the time
but never expected ever to hear it used as a matter of course. I
was thrilled. DH was bemused, because it was just an ordinary
word to him!
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: STiG
Date: October 22, 2021, 12:17 pm
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There is something to be said for a good digestive tract clean
out. My IBS symptoms reduced considerably for months after I'd
done the colonoscopy prep. Enough that I've seriously
considered doing the prep on a regular basis - annually,
perhaps.
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: Jayhawk
Date: October 22, 2021, 1:08 pm
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My DH says it's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock when
it's really coming down.
#Post#: 71131--------------------------------------------------
Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: Lilipons
Date: October 22, 2021, 1:51 pm
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My Grandmother would say that a good, hearty laugh ‘Turns your
liver over’.
Indeed, that can be how it feels when you laugh so hard it
hurts.
#Post#: 71371--------------------------------------------------
Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: BeagleMommy
Date: November 3, 2021, 8:07 am
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My grandmother's favorite saying when someone was saying their
husband wanted more children was "If men had to give birth the
world would be full of only children".
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: NFPwife
Date: November 3, 2021, 11:58 am
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--- Quote from: DCGirl link ---
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> My grandmother had a saying for an item of clothing, such as a
black sweater or skirt, that attracted and showed every little
bit of fluff: this sweater picks up everything but money and
men. I always thought that was rather daring for a lady born in
1908.
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My mom says that. I've said it a time or two, once in a
formfitting sweater and my DH replied, "Um, maybe not money..."
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: holly firestorm
Date: November 3, 2021, 3:50 pm
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This might be from Texas because I first heard it from a friend
who was originally from that state, "Your right to swing your
arm ends where my nose begins."
Another one I've heard that could be southern US in origin, "God
willing and the crick don't rise."
I use both all the time now.
I'm originally from the New York area and I also use "Not for
nothin'" mostly ironically, though. It's a hard expression to
explain. Basically, it translates to "no kidding! this is really
true."
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: MarmaladeMom
Date: November 18, 2021, 5:35 pm
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--- Quote from: holly firestorm link ---
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>
> Another one I've heard that could be southern US in origin,
"God willing and the crick don't rise."
>
> I use both all the time now.
>
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I remember hearing that one when I was little, visiting my
great-grandmother, grandmother and cousins in the panhandle of
Idaho in the late ‘60s and early’70s.
Plus they always got a good scald on something when something
turned out particularly well.
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