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'Time to climb the wooden hill' - from my father-in-law to my wife as a child, when time to go upstairs to bed....
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A navalism about the wholly incompetent: "He could fuck up a one-car funeral."
An expression derived from a Robert Fulghum story: "Fishing for groundsquirrels." |
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Up tha (you) dances. Tha = thou or thee. It survives in little bits of the Northern dialects.
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Only heard about it. And Fulghum... he caught one.
Of course this story would appear in a book called It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It. |
I think the phrase "Kick yer ass" is pretty weird. It has nothing to do with an actual kicking of the buttockal area.
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It does sometimes...I've seen it happen once or twice.
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"In the rare cases where this does succeed, the subject becomes freaked out by the experience and runs away." So - is "freaked out" the scientific term for it? I heart squirrels. |
How about 'stick your oar in' - meaning to put your point of view across without being asked, or to meddle when not invited - as in 'trust you to stick your oar in'
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Here is some more random things: Sweeting like a pig-pigs don't sweat. better version: Sweeting like an illegal[immigrant] in a trailer It is all Greek to me. -Many scholarly materials were first written and studied in Greek or Latin. Alternative version: It is all Manderen to me. Smart ass- Biblical reference to Balum and the wise donkey Ship High In Transit This acronym refers to fertilizer because the methane gas that builds up is dangerous so it must be shipped high in transit. "Going to the John" in world war I the most use brand of toilet in Europe was sold by John Crapper, when the Americans were there they have never seen that kind of toilet and simply called it what was printed on it. Mad as a hatter - A part of the hat making process called to for the use of Mercury which can lead to mental illness |
Read this in the Tribune recently: "Out in left field"
West Side Park, where the Chicago Cubs played before Wrigley, had a mental hospital across the street from left field. |
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