Favorite Colloquialisms And Sayings

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='zunshynn' date='10 May 2010 - 06:50 PM' timestamp='1273513826' post='2108141']
"You're a mess" - Tennessean from Deacon Bill Steltemeier. Deacon Bill used to say that all the time, and I didn't know what it meant, then a sister told me it means you're hysterical.
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Yeah, grew up with that one.

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='10 May 2010 - 09:14 PM' timestamp='1273522475' post='2108237']
Coke is not limited just to meaning Cocola itself.
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Exactly

As a playful threat when a child is being silly: I'm gonna turn you upside-down and hang you up by your toenails. I say that to my son sometimes.

[Hilde]

I'm gonna hang you by your eyelids and force you to blink.

[Socrates]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='10 May 2010 - 04:16 PM' timestamp='1273522616' post='2108240']
One thing I've heard a lot lately among people my age is "X is/was/will be rowdy." Rowdy is implying that people are getting drunk and obnoxious, but it's got a positive connotation. Rowdy just isn't a word people used until very recently, except for parents referring to misbehaving children. I dunno if that's a regionalism, or just new slang.
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[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='10 May 2010 - 04:20 PM' timestamp='1273522800' post='2108246']
I think "rowdy" may be old slang coming back, except it wasn't positive before.
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I've never regarded "rowdy" as slang, but a legitimate word, and it's definitely not a regionalism (though maybe it's not as common in Canada, idk).
According to the dictionary, it's been used in print since 1819.

Main Entry: 1row·dy
Pronunciation: \ˈrau̇-dē\
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): row·di·er; row·di·est
Etymology: perhaps irregular from 5row
Date: 1819

: coarse or boisterous in behavior : rough; also : characterized by such behavior <rowdy local bars>

Edited May 11, 2010 by Socrates

[Socrates]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='10 May 2010 - 02:06 PM' timestamp='1273514768' post='2108149']
Oh, and anything using the "worst" swear word.
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Nothing like those quaint and charming Jersey colloquialisms.

[rhetoricfemme]

[quote name='Ave Maria Totus Tuus' date='10 May 2010 - 08:28 PM' timestamp='1273537704' post='2108372']
"Finer than a frog's hair!"
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My dad started saying this once he got stuck in the hospital from cancer. Today would have been his 63rd birthday.

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='10 May 2010 - 11:26 PM' timestamp='1273548419' post='2108484']
"Dey terk ar jerbs! dey touk ur derbs!"

also as an awesome threat my dad taught me "boy i will rip your arm off and wipe the sticky end in your face"
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My husband and I go back and forth with the "Dey terk his darg!" and end up making rooster noises at one another. Hehe.

I'm fond of saying, "Boy Howdy!"

My Dad taught us a great quote that he used on us girls and told us to use on our husbands when necessary. "There's not an anchor in your a--!"

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='rhetoricfemme' date='11 May 2010 - 12:10 PM' timestamp='1273594218' post='2108669']

My Dad taught us a great quote that he used on us girls and told us to use on our husbands when necessary. "There's not an anchor in your a--!"
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Growing up, when we'd ask for something, my dad would often say, "Well, people in Hell want ice water."

Two of my friends in college frequently say, "Geez whiz!" or "Golly gee!" I always enjoyed that! Hahaha!

Another one would say, "Man alive!"

I've always wanted to say "Geez whiz!" or "Golly gee!" (or even "Gee willikers!", but somehow... it just never felt right coming out of my mouth.

"Cool beans" used to work for me, but now that feels foreign, too. So sad.

[rhetoricfemme]

[quote name='laetitia crucis' date='11 May 2010 - 12:28 PM' timestamp='1273595330' post='2108680']


Growing up, when we'd ask for something, my dad would often say, "Well, people in Hell want ice water."

Two of my friends in college frequently say, "Geez whiz!" or "Golly gee!" I always enjoyed that! Hahaha!

Another one would say, "Man alive!"

I've always wanted to say "Geez whiz!" or "Golly gee!" (or even "Gee willikers!", but somehow... it just never felt right coming out of my mouth.

"Cool beans" used to work for me, but now that feels foreign, too. So sad.
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Ah, yes. It's sad when our phrases outgrow us. Or we outgrow them, lol.

I have a friend who is excellent with the zingers and such, and he always knew how to get me. I'd be laughing, half appalled, and I'd say, "I hate you, Jeff!" at a very high octave. Then one day, it didn't sound right anymore. I stopped declaring my loving hatred for him a few years back, when we agreed that it just never came out right anymore...

And I will definitely be using that ice water quote!

[Archaeology cat]

"God willing and the creek don't rise"
"haven't seen you in a month of Sundays"

My best friend's dad used to tell her "in the words of Mick Jagger, 'you can't always get what you want'". She grew up not knowing who Mick Jagger was, but hating him for saying she couldn't have what she wanted.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' date='11 May 2010 - 12:49 PM' timestamp='1273600145' post='2108723']
"God willing and the creek don't rise"
"haven't seen you in a month of Sundays"

My best friend's dad used to tell her "in the words of Mick Jagger, 'you can't always get what you want'". She grew up not knowing who Mick Jagger was, but hating him for saying she couldn't have what she wanted.
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What, he never told you that if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need?

[WillT]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' date='11 May 2010 - 02:49 PM' timestamp='1273600145' post='2108723']
"God willing and the creek don't rise"
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Actually, "Creek" should be capitalized as it's a propper name.

"Hotter than a 2 dollar pistol" was one I remember from growing up in Mississippi. My mom always used to say "I didn't fall off the turnip truck!" meaning "I wasn't born yesterday." etc.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='WillT' date='11 May 2010 - 02:22 PM' timestamp='1273602143' post='2108745']
Actually, "Creek" should be capitalized as it's a propper name.

"Hotter than a 2 dollar pistol" was one I remember from growing up in Mississippi. My mom always used to say "I didn't fall off the turnip truck!" meaning "I wasn't born yesterday." etc.
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Actually, creek is a small stream and is not proper unless you are referring to a specific creek. And proper is spelled with one 'p'. Just fyi.

[Vincent Vega]

The etymology of the phrase, though, refers to the Creek Indian tribe.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='11 May 2010 - 04:29 PM' timestamp='1273609782' post='2108856']
The etymology of the phrase, though, refers to the Creek Indian tribe.


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Around here when they use that phrase they are referring to the actual body of water. As in, as long as God is willing and there is no physical impediment (i.e., flooding). Maybe we're all dolts. All of us are Cherokee around here.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Marie-Therese' date='11 May 2010 - 04:33 PM' timestamp='1273609980' post='2108861']
Around here when they use that phrase they are referring to the actual body of water. As in, as long as God is willing and there is no physical impediment (i.e., flooding). Maybe we're all dolts. All of us are Cherokee around here.
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I've always heard of "creek" as an actual body of water. And I think a lot of us around her are also Cherokee. (Including myself -- even though I'm not a "native". )

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Marie-Therese' date='11 May 2010 - 04:33 PM' timestamp='1273609980' post='2108861']
Around here when they use that phrase they are referring to the actual body of water. As in, as long as God is willing and there is no physical impediment (i.e., flooding). Maybe we're all dolts. All of us are Cherokee around here.
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Perhaps.
The phrase originated in north Georgia, by a man named Benjamin Hawkins, the liaison between the US Government and the Indian tribes of the South.
[quote]...the phrase would be correctly written as 'God willing and the Creek don't rise'. Hawkins, college-educated and a well-written man would never have made a grammatical error, so the capitalization of Creek is the only way the phrase could make sense. He wrote it in response to a request from the President to return to our Nation's Capital and the reference is not to a creek, but The Creek Indian Nation. If the Creek "rose", Hawkins would have to be present to quell the rebellion.[/quote]