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Philip d

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Not far from here there?s a couple century old or more community. It?s made up of mainly Irish and French/Acadian settlers. The nicest people you could ever care to meet and and they really are very intelligent folks but they sure have some unique sayings. Ex., ?how are you today ?? Usually gets answered by ?very bes?, meaning I?m the very best I can be or very well thank you. If something is pretty neat it could be described as ?well sir she?s some slack der ?. Another funny one is three is called tree and third is sometimes call turd so 33 1/3 can be called turdy tree and a turd. If something looks like garbage it can be described as ?well sir der ain?t that some handsome?. Any funny unique sayings in your area?
 
Philip,

It's not a saying in the same nature as what you stated, but, I live in Middle Tennessee. I'm a Yankee transplant who has been here for 20 years. I still laugh when I here some of the locals refer to a stocking cap as a toboggan. Some of them even shorten it and simply refer to it as a boggan. I just envision people walking around with a sled on their heads.

Tom in TN
 
Around here, if something is neat or works well, it's "Slick" and if it's REALLY impressive it's "Slick as a smelt!"

My other favorite is "numb", used where you'd usually hear "dumb". If a person does something that wasn't too bright, the comment is "Well, that was numb!" If a person does things like that on a regular basis, he's "numb as a pounded thumb".
 
I wonder of Harkers Island, North Carolina ever integrated with the mainland.

It's an Island off the coast by Beaufort, NC, and when I was there years ago the people on the island almost had their own language.

The main industry on the island was boat building, and their boats had a certain flair in the bow. All up and down the East Coast you'd hear people mention a boat with a Harkers Island bow.
 
well here are two form my part of Ontario Canada.
some one left the gate open and let all the cows out. [ when sitting at a stop sign and the cross street seams to be never ending]
use some elbow grease on that [when one is trying to remove or clean something and extra effort insneeded]
Wm
 
Dumb as a creek rock=== bless their heart,,,,Sxxx fire and save matches,,, slicker than snot on a doorknob,,,
 
We had a truck driver, he was from the city (New York). As you say, three = tree. He was hungarian, nicest guy you could ever meet. Said, "Dooes tree guys stop in fronta my truck, - almost killed dem". Our farm is an orchard and we say we're the tree guys! And he says, "Oh yoos guys gotta stop kidding me!". Always had a lot of good laughs.
 
"Up the creek without a paddle" always puzzled me.
Guess you had a paddle to get up there and then lost it?
So If you are up the creek then you need the paddle to steer your way down? Or if the creek is not running then you need the paddle to come down?
 
If you were having a family squabble, uncle john would say something like, don't be out on the floor doing the rumba when the music calls for a waltz.
 
A neighbor of ours when i was a kid when someone would ask him Clifton what have you been doing today he would reply o just goughing around both he and his wife were in their early forties already had three kids to their surprise she was pregnant the men in the community were at the local church digging a grave when another one of his neighbors who liked to pick on Clifton
said Clifton i think you have been goughing around to much.
 
Ok, this is weird. And it's not local, but I'll try to explain. I was talking to a man from the Cockney area of London, England. Says they practically have their own language. Two words are used to express what normally would be said in one word. And the second word has to rhyme with that original word.

example: Going up the apples and pears means going upstairs. Pears rhymes with stairs.

Another example: Can you Adam and Eve it? Means can you believe it? Eve rhymes with believe.

No way to know what anyone is talking about if you don't know this slang. If you don't believe me, do a search for rhyming Cockney slang. You'll find a dictionary of it.
 
Some I've heard over the years is "He couldn't pour pee out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom" or "it's like trying to fit a nats a$$ over a fence post". Then back home there wes an older family where none of the kids got married and considered strange or odd. One neighbor said that the wagon fell on the one boy, the other guy said I think the wagon fell on the whole family. The one saying I always believe in is "you can cause what you're trying to prevent if you're not careful".
 
I always think of a toboggan as a sled. We had a one that was wooden and the front was rolled up so it would slide over things. Spent many hours on it behind the 440 liquafire as a kid.
 
When my Dad was a kid, before WWll, the neighborhood kids would (run around the gool). It was a circular route around the area about three miles. Never knew why they called it a gool. May have been an Irish thing.
 
Not really local, but Dynamo Hum is one of my favorites for something that turned out just the way you wanted it. ( doesn't get used all that often!)
 
When ever my dad figured something out, he would say "Ah ha she cried with accent and bitter as she swung her wooden leg!" Never knew what it meant beside he figured it out.
 
Heard this down south: He was getting a little "backed up" because the waitress was so slow. Backed up, if I understand, means annoyed, a little shy of angry. I think it refers to constipation. If you're "backed up," you're constipated.
 
Carpentry when you are a little short on one end. A blind man will never see it, why a blind man on horse back after midnight would be glad to see it.
 
With the stock market doing its thing I might as well sell the chit house cause I lost my azz.
 
Grandpa: Two heads are better than one, even if one is a cabbage head.
I see, said the blind man, after he felt the elephant's leg.
Someone would say, "it won't be long now!" Grampa would say, that's what
the monkey said after he backed into the lawn mower.
 
When something was expensive my dad would say, "It's like the monkey said when he peed in the cash register..... that stuff runs into money !!"
 
mid-Tennessee: When someone doesn't look so good, like they might be very ill - "He looks like death eatin' a cracker."
 
I dated a girl from an island on the mid coast of Maine. Her father was a lobstermen. They had all kinds of funny sayings.

He's tighter'n the bark on a tree = he's cheap

He's number'n than a haddock = he's stupid

He ain't no bigger'n a pint of p1ss = very small

Sounds like two skeletons fahkin on a tin roof = loud metallic sounds

Slicker'n two eels fahkin in a barrel full of snot = something that works well

Blacker'n Zip's azz = very black

I've never heard tell of that = that's unfamiliar
 
"If you don't use your head, ya might as well have a butt on both ends." At least that's what my dad said a lot when I was around.

Life is like a splinter, sometimes ya just gotta let it fester.
 
someday's you're the windshield, someday's you're the bug, and someday's you're the hydrant and sometimes you're the dog.
 
You might say us hillfolks have a different way of talking. Dad always said, in talking about fence wire "that's tight as Dick's hatband". And speaking of fence, it's "bob-war" here, not barbed wire. The old timers always "plowed" their corn and cotton, instead of saying they cultivated it. Most folks around here call their vehicle a "rig", as in "come on we'll take my rig to town". Lots of us say taken rather than took; i.e.: I taken him a bucket of 'maters. And some substitute the "taken" for "carried" in the same manner. When asked how are you, we tend to respond "fairly middlin'" or "fair to middlin'". A "fur (fair) piece" is a good distance away; Something (or someone) odd is "mighty quare". There are many more I can't think of off-hand.

Mac
 
An older neighbor of mine could fix anything I asked him one time if he could fix something for me. He said if I can't fix it, grits ain't groceries. He was a good friend and a good neighbor to every one he ran across. The world needs more like him.
 
My grandfather upon completion of a task would say, "Naught left but to pizz on the far an call in th dawgs!"
 
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