O/T Just for the heck uvit.........

Goose · Aug 26, 2010

Can anyone come up with any figures of speech that are unique to farmers?

Two that come to mind are if you hear someone refer to the tailgate on a pickup as an "endgate", you know he's a farmer.

Also, a farmer doesn't stop in to pay a bill, he stops in to "settle up".

Does anyone know of any others?

MarkB_MI · Aug 26, 2010

I've always used the expression "tough row to hoe", which takes on a whole new meaning after you've hoed a few acres of weedy beans.

I often say "we're in the short rows now", which has to be completely incomprehensible to a non-farmer.

Haven't actually farmed since I was a kid thirty years ago, BTW.

Chris (WA) · Aug 26, 2010

Hmmm... Can't dance and its too wet to plow?
Useless as teats on a boar pig?

JD2ACWD · Aug 26, 2010

make hay when the sun shines, go to town when it rains.

GeneMO · Aug 26, 2010

Walkin' in high cotton.

In the south, you dont "take someone to town" you "Carry" them to town. ie. " I carried daddy to the store yesterday"

I'll think of some more here if a bit.

Gene

flying belgian · Aug 26, 2010

Walking beans. as in Are you through walking the beans yet. Everyone knows what walking the dog is but only a farmer knows what walking the beans is.

dbernie · Aug 26, 2010

"He bought the farm."
Read the origin on that one.

"Scuse me a minute, gonna go talk to a man about a horse"

"Hedge row"

Off the top of my head--n remember its been hit hard a few times.
Surprised I came up with that...LOL

Old Roy · Aug 27, 2010

Sloppin the pigs comes to mind,

Fetchin the cows and foddern em

pitchen hay

Huskin corn with a huskin peg

Harold Hubbard · Aug 27, 2010

And when he ran up the bill originally, he didn't say "charge it", he said "Set that down to me (or for me) " Or maybe, "Kin you carry me on that 'til next month?"

Anonymous-0 · Aug 27, 2010

Taters
maters
pole cat
tobacco stick
sticker bush
single tree
creck (for creek)
on the ridge

Brian G. NY · Aug 27, 2010

"A cold, wet May means a barn full of hay"

Paul Janke · Aug 27, 2010

When something is completely used up, probably from abuse, it is "hailed out".

DH in Carolina · Aug 27, 2010

Need to cut them bull calves today.
Going to turn that field today.
Sick chicken-- That chicken ain't very pert.
Gotta top that baccer this week.
Put that milk in the spring box.
Take them eggs to the store and trade em.
Tight as a bulls arse in fly time.
Old sow had eight pigs and one runt.
Pig in a poke. DH

tomturkey · Aug 27, 2010

I had an ole boy who always said " Makin bag now" if n things were goin well gobble

Mopower · Aug 27, 2010

Don't take long to stay all night round here.

James Howell · Aug 27, 2010

Too long behind a plow.

Don't know sheep sh!t from cotton seed.

Sometimes chickens, sometimes feathers.

@ss as big as a #3 washtub.

Shuckins, can't think of any more.

Geo-TH,In · Aug 27, 2010

Poe Barn.
Dig a hoe.
Put a poe in the hoe.
Then put a fag on top of the poe.
Hope you figured out that the letter L is missing and I hope I don't get poofed, but this is the way some country boys talk where I live.

wijim · Aug 27, 2010

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