Colloquialisms

[not2old]

I mess with my ex-boss (used to own the company I worked for), now my friend that he's cheap. He's Italian and in Italy they say they have porcupine pockets.

Around here the expression is short arms, deep pockets.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Read this, y'all: Is the Okie dialect disappearing?

American historian and writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, who wrote about growing up in rural Oklahoma in the 1940s and 1950s in her memoir “Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie,” recalls being ashamed of her Oklahom…

www.oklahoman.com

 

[Oaktree]

Read this, y'all: Is the Okie dialect disappearing?

American historian and writer Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, who wrote about growing up in rural Oklahoma in the 1940s and 1950s in her memoir “Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie,” recalls being ashamed of her Oklahom…

www.oklahoman.com

Regional accents in general have been diminishing for half a century now. Credit or blame it on an increasingly mobile population and the influence of television.

 

[MH8675309]

That aint Ernest T. Bass.

I dont chew my cabbage twice - and you aint heard the last of Earnest T Bass!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Grinnin' like a mule eatin' briars.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Or like a cat eating wasps...

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

"Like herding cats"

My neighbor says his grandkids could "tear the steering wheel off of a Army tank".

 

[Dftodd]

"Like herding cats"

My neighbor says his grandkids could "tear the steering wheel off of a Army tank".

My coworker refers to home as an "Al Qaeda training camp"

This refers to his 3 kids when they get into mischief

 

[dodge man]

That guy could break an anvil with a Q tip.

 

[Dftodd]

That guy could break an anvil with a Q tip.

Ive known a few people over the years that were like that.