Colloquialisms

[Racer4]

Gotta go see a man about a horse.


(I have no clue what that actually means...)

It means “take a leak”

 

[Dftodd]

Gotta go see a man about a horse.


(I have no clue what that actually means...)

Drop the kids off at the pool

 

[Complete Turf Care]

It's so hot, I was sweating more than a *hore in church.

 

[JohnP3616]

I thought I was a pretty good horse trader, but I traded my old truck for a new one and that dang guy skinned me like a shot deer, I tell ya what.

 

[JasperFrank]

"All hat and no cattle," a western phrase for someone that is pretentious.

"Its been Ricky-ed," or "Ricky, was here." A new way of saying its been Jerry Rigged, altered, but not done well.

"Hi Hon," Short for honey, a standard greeting, but only used addressing men to women or women to men, or women to women: Never men to men.

 

[rontaki]

How, High Are You?

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Caught between a rock and a hard place.

 

[tracter]

A "Sandwich short of a Picnic" "not the brightest candle in the box" " about as useful as an Ashtray on a motorbike"

 

[RayIN]

Torrential rain event that leaves washed out gully's.

I've had to grade/drag my driveway crushed stone back up the hill 4X already this year due to gully washer rain storms.
If it ever dries out I need to have about 20T of crushed stone spread this summer to replace what was lost.

 

[3930dave]

Gotta go see a man about a horse.


(I have no clue what that actually means...)

Going to see a man about a dog.

Old rural way of less-directly saying Going to Do Something, Don't Ask.....

(Regional, and perhaps not common anymore).

Rgds, D.