My husbands Mother says...still..."I'm plum tuckered out!" LOL Meaning she is tired. Do you have some you can share with us?
2007-08-20 13:37:53 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
My All time favorite...."It takes a big man to pick up another when they have fallen down." Meaning, it takes a good person to help another, when someone has fallen upon hard times!
2007-08-20 14:50:57 · update #1
My Grandma had a lot of them:
"I don't give a hoot nor the holler" = she didn't care
"Oh I'm fair to middling" = she felt fine
"I haven't done that in a coon's age" = not in a long time
"Ya best be tending you own back porch before you come here messing with mine" = mind your own problems
"he ain't got the brains God gave a goose" = he is dumb
"I grew up in a plum poken town." = a small town where you could poke your head out the window and you would be plum out of town.
Please forgive any miss spellings the spell check doesn't do "Okie" LOL
2007-08-20 14:01:15 · answer #1 · answered by DrMichael 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
1) "I've been rode hard and put up wet." This means I've been working hard and I'm tired. It probably originates with horses who have been ridden fast and then put in a barn without a chance to cool down.
2) "Since God was a boy" meaning A long time ago.
3) "Find out if that dog hunts" meaning to see if something works.
4) "Laws a Massey" an exclamation probably meaning "lord almighty"
5) "Such a thief he eats soup with a corkscrew" Meaning the person is "crooked."
6) "By Jingo" an exclamation for emphasis as in: "That dog hunts, by jingo" = it really works!
7) "Stuff and nonsense" meaning lacking in credibility.
8)"Gassing" meaning Talking
9) "Chew the fat" meaning having a conversation with someone.
10) "Thick as Thieves" meaning two or more people are closely allied in a purpose.
2007-08-20 21:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm from south Louisiana and most of the ones I remember from the old folks were in French. I won't include them because they would be hard to relate to in this forum. This is not really a colloquialism but it's unusual and somewhat interesting.
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FROM THE OLD DAYS......FOR BAD WEATHER
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Burning palm. (ceremony, or the act of) The act of burning the palm that is kept in the home that was used and blessed by the priest from the last Palm Sunday. During bad weather it was burned in the home while offering prayers of protection.
My Mom had a fear of house fires so she did it over the toilet. What is wrong with this picture?
Creole/African/West Indian/American old folks covered all the mirrors in the house with cloths during bad weather. This could have voodoo origins.
2007-08-20 22:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I served in the Navy with a Chief Dental Technician from Northwest Arkansas. He had a lot of them, but my favorite was: "That's as slick as sweat on a plastic door knob". Later on I served with a guy from Texas and he left me with another gem: "He's all hat and no cattle", meaning the person puts up a good front with nothing to back it.
2007-08-20 22:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My grandparents are from the South. My cousin got to visit the farm during the summer. When he returned home, my aunt said that he asked for the "kivers." Up here, its what we call the bed "covers." They also "hushed" the windows!
My mom says "Will hush my mouth and call me Trixie." Don't know what it means.
I like to say after a meal "I am as full as a tick on a dog."
Hope these sayings never die. lol
2007-08-20 20:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I used the anagram of this one on here not too long ago, just to confuse people...."Thank God for little green apples!" I have no idea where it came from, but was quite a popular saying in my early twenties.
"groovin' or groovy" for california people (or wannabes).
Snapping of the fingers over and over again to show approval (especially for the beatniks of the fifties).
"peace" accompanied by the symbol of course for hippies.
"right on" "bitchin" and a few other (mostly) impolite things for brothers of the disco era.
"keep your shirt on" for don't be so impatient (no particular age or generation).
"hanging loose" "chilling" "laid back" all meant to convey being relaxed. More disco than hippie.
2007-08-21 08:55:17 · answer #6 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am from the Mid West, and most of what is written below was part (still is) of my bag of idioms...the only one I use (rarely) that i don't see is " Slicker than deer guts on a door knob....I think it is self explanitory. And yes, we used to hunt in the fall, so we knew what we were saying, that's for sure.
2007-08-20 23:36:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My husband and I remember these...fit to be tied, poor as a church mouse, fit as a fiddle, jumping from the frying pan into the fire, chip off the old block, dead as a door nail, like the pot calling the kettle black, and the lights are on but no one's home.
2007-08-20 21:42:42 · answer #8 · answered by night-owl gracie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1960--My Mama used to tell me there's gonna be days like this and days like that but you can't win 'em all. A friend used to say this all the time. Another one was want in one hand and s*** in the other and see which one gets full the quickest.
2007-08-20 20:53:52 · answer #9 · answered by lilabner 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not a senior (close, but not yet) but my dad was born in 1927, so I've got a few.
You can't prove it by me.
The Good Book.
A month of Sundays.
Crying crocodile tears.
I didn't come from no monkey.
Dumb as a Bag full of hammers.
That's awfully white of you.
2007-08-20 20:50:54 · answer #10 · answered by A Plague on your houses 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋