Colloquialisms

[tallyho8]

I've lived here almost 22 years, and I never figured out what "out of pocket" meant!!!

It still doesn't make sense to me, but I didn't realize it had anything to do with not being available. I wonder how many times I've talked to somebody and thought they were broke when they said that?

I have heard many people say "out of pocket" or "under the table" to mean paying you cash for a job so you don't have to claim it on your tax.

 

[BravoXray]

What we here in Indiana refer to as "doing donuts", i.e. doing a burnout going in a circle, in Minnesota, I'm told, is called "whipping shitties."

 

[CalG]

Is your "barn Door" open?

Wider than a barn door.....

higher'n a kite

Can't dance and it's to wet to plow.

Sh&t or get off the pot.

lickity split
dog gone

straight as an arrow.

got your ass in a sling

 

[CalG]

This is a rather obscure one, used by my "crowd" when quite young.

It was an expression that defined an encountered problem , often as a adversarial tease.

"tough titty said the kitty, but the milks OK"

 

[tallyho8]

When you want to disparage someone to their face without giving them a reason to give you a bloody nose you say "I don't care what they say about you, I think you are all right".

I haven't heard it in many years but when I was young and people talked about someone who was different from you in a certain way they called him a "fruit". Nowadays they just have initials for that type of person.

In the 50s and 60s when cars were the big thing, if someone had a fast car they said it was "bad" and if they had a slow car they said it was "ice".

 

[CalG]

When was the last time you were//

"fit to be tied"?

 

[bigdeer2000]

Hanging in there like a hair in a biscuit!

 

[Racer4]

A couple more,

"hit me", I remember as a youngster, in the 50's. It's in the Tom Hanks movie, The Thing You Do.

" Dibs and No Dibs ". Again as a youngster, when going to the corner store if anybody in the group had some change and were going to buy candy you needed to share it if you did not say " No Dibs ". If you had no money and said "Dibs" before entering the store whoever bought the candy had to share. Sweet eh?

" Punch Bug ", this was probably a local thing. If you were riding in a car and saw a Volkswagen Bug, which were very rare in those days, you could hit your fellow passenger in the arm/shoulder.

Again riding in a car, yell out " Fiddle ". That's being the first one to see a car with one headlight out. Probably another local thing, strange but true eh!

Remember all of those! The last one was “puhdiddle” around here!

 

[bcp]

"Up the creek without a paddle." Doesn't really sound too bad. Much better than being "down the creek without a paddle."

Bruce

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

After lots of rain I heard a farmer say the ground was "too thick to drink too thin to plow".
Years ago an old fellow asked me to hand him a paint brush, he said "not that one...it's stiff as a weddin' dick".
Down south someone saying "bless your heart" usually means "kiss my axx".
"Ah mo" means "I'm going to".
Person with buck teeth could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.
Good food "makes you wish your goozle was as long as a fence rail" or "makes ya wanna slap 'yo momma".