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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
By: Titanica Date: November 19, 2021, 9:24 am
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[quote author=holly firestorm link=topic=2179.msg71389#msg71389
date=1635972642]
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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I've always thought of it as a version of "Just sayin'".
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
By: holly firestorm Date: November 28, 2021, 10:46 pm
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How distant is 'regional?' Because, I really like it when Brits
say "tuck in" to mean "OK, we can start eating now."
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
By: TootsNYC Date: November 29, 2021, 9:59 am
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[quote author=oogyda link=topic=2179.msg71114#msg71114
date=1634907013]
[quote author=Snowfire link=topic=2179.msg71108#msg71108
date=1634872491]
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.
Couldn't stop a pig in a passage. - referring to someone who was
very bowlegged
I may remember more later...
[/quote]
Having their tail over the dashboard always meant conceited or
full of oneself whenever I've heard it. But it's been awhile.
[/quote]
I got curious, so I went googling:
From an analysis of the novel All the King's Men
HTML http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/AKMone.html
[quote]36. 10.26–27 keep his tail over the dashboard
When horses properly pulled wagons at a relatively fast speed,
when the process was persisting correctly, they kept their heads
up and their tails over the dashboard of the wagon they
pulled.[/quote]
From a compilation of slang and idiom from local newspapers
[quote]Corpus Christi Coastal Bend South Texas news,
information, events ...
... A cowboy in high spirits had his tail over the dashboard. A
hungry cowboy
was narrow at the equator. A tough customer was known as a curly
wolf. ...
www.caller.com/ccct/opinion_columnists/article/
0,1641,CCCT_843_2230308,00.html - 33k - Cached - Similar pages
[/quote]
From a list of Texas cowboy slang
HTML https://www.hayabusa.org/forum/threads/texas-cowboy-lingo.56682/
[quote]A depressed cowhand was down in his boots or had his tail
over the dashboard.
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from a NYTimes story referencing the novel All the King's Men
HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/31/books/critic-s-notebook-political-novels-for-all-seasons-and-for-one-season.html
A character is speaking about someone who's been arrested
because he killed a man in a "fahr fight."
[quote]''Hit wuz fahr and squahr, but he had a leetle bad luck.
He stobbed the feller and he died.''
''Tough tiddy. Tried yet?''
''Not yit.''
''Tough tiddy.''
''I ain't complainen. Hit wuz fit fahr and squahr.''
''Glad to seen you. Tell your boy to keep his tail over the
dashboard.''
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From context, it seems like a word of encouragement--"tell your
friend in jail to keep his chin up."
and a Google Answers thread on that very phrase from that same
novel:
HTML http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/476367.html
[quote]My grandpa used this phrase occasionally. It is a message
of
encouragement, roughly equivalent to "Keep a stiff upper lip,
"Keep
your chin up," or "Don't worry, be happy." At least that's what
it
meant in Oklahoma, where I grew up. When I lived in Tennessee, I
once
heard this used in an opposite sense: "Don't get your tail over
the
dashboard," with the obvious meaning "Don't get all het up" or
"Don't
get your panties in a bunch."
Here's a plausible explanation of the phrase's origin, from a
newsgroup post:
"My father still uses 'Head up and tail over the dashboard' to
describe something that is going very well or in response to
'How are
you?' He once told me that the part of a wagon where the driver
puts
his feet is called the dashboard. When a wagon is being pulled
by a
horse at a steady, quick pace, the horse is said to have his
'head up
and tail over the dashboard'."
Post from alt.genealogy newsgroup (there are several links there
with different meanings)
HTML http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.genealogy/msg/a7526c1764a646b1
This newsgroup post gives the contrary meaning, citing it as an
East
Texas regionalism:
"When I moved from Louisiana to Houston my immediate boss was a
pixie-like woman from East Texas. I learned some very neat
regionalisms from her.
Go on back to your rat killing (said after you had interrupted
someone
who was doing something, didn't matter what, and you were
finished)
Don't get your tail over the dashboard - don't get upset."
Post from bit.listserv.dorothyl
HTML http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bit.listserv.dorothyl/msg/b878c374ce52a8d7?dmode=source
In context, it seems to me that the excerpts from "All the
King's Men"
carry a meaning similar to my grandpa's: "Don't let anything get
you
down."
[/quote]
Here is a different meaning, from another compilation of
idioms/sayings
HTML https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/sep/09/the-good-word-20150909/
[quote]Chuck Anderson, meanwhile, sent a few phrases his momma
used to say, including: "'He got his tail over the dashboard,'
meaning he got all huffed up over something. [/quote]
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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
By: TootsNYC Date: November 29, 2021, 10:00 am
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[quote author=STiG link=topic=2179.msg71125#msg71125
date=1634923065]
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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That makes me think of all the 'good gut bacteria' studies, etc.
and the gut-bacteria transplant (or fecal microbiota transplant)
HTML https://www.webmd.com/ibd-crohns-disease/ulcerative-colitis/fecal-transplant-what-you-should-know
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