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Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: Titanica
Date: November 19, 2021, 9:24 am
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--- Quote from: holly firestorm link ---
>
>
> 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
DIR 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
DIR By: TootsNYC
Date: November 29, 2021, 9:59 am
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--- Quote from: oogyda link ---
>
> [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...
>
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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.
[/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.
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From a compilation of slang and idiom from local newspapers
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> 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
>
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From a list of Texas cowboy slang
HTML https://www.hayabusa.org/forum/threads/texas-cowboy-lingo.56682/
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> 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."
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> ''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
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> 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."
>
>
>
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Here is a different meaning, from another compilation of
idioms/sayings
HTML https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/sep/09/the-good-word-20150909/
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> 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.
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#Post#: 72071--------------------------------------------------
Re: Colorful Regional Sayings or Phrases
DIR By: TootsNYC
Date: November 29, 2021, 10:00 am
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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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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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