Regional sayings..do you know what they mean?

[Behind the Aegis]

Since I moved to Oklahoma a few years ago, I found that some of the sayings I grew up with (in the Southeast of the US) were not to be found here. And, there were a few here, that I had never heard. So, post a saying, and see if someone knows what it is.

"The devil is beating his wife." Do you know what it means? I do! :)

[WiltedFlowerChild]

1. The sun is shining

but it's raining!

[Behind the Aegis]

2. That's right!

Do you know others?

[WiltedFlowerChild]

3. Can't think of any more at the moment

My Dad, who grew up in Southern Illinois always used that phrase.

[WiltedFlowerChild]

4. OK, got one

"stayed until the last dog was hung"

[Behind the Aegis]

8. I have no idea!

Last call?

[mykpart]

9. Does that one mean

overstayed your welcome? Or closed the bar?

[WiltedFlowerChild]

12. You got it

Last one to stumble home from a party.

[Duncan Grant]

11. Had to google it. I've never heard that one.

These regional sayings are disappearing fast! :(

[KitchenWitch]

5. "Rode hard and put away wet"

[Not_Giving_Up]

21. My grandmother uses this one

to suggest that someone looks rough, or hasn't aged well.

[mykpart]

6. One I heard from an old Irish priest.

I'm not sure what he meant. "Your father loved you more than your mother."

[Lilyhoney]

39. I think it means...

That either your dad was molesting you or the "father" priest was. As we all know the Irish catholics are known for the pope, drinking and molesting. Too harsh? Sorry, I am Irish catholic. Or was as a child.

[JohnnyRingo]

7. The "Good Scissors"

As in: "Don't use the good scissors".

[KitchenWitch]

13. Hey, I have good scissors!

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Do you let anyone use them?

Hahahahahaha

I guess if you did they wouldn"t be the "good scissors".
What do you use for "everyday scissors"?....Two butter knives taped together?

Hahaha...Just kidding, I grew up in a house with "sacred shears".

[KitchenWitch]

15. My good scissors are hidden in my sewing box

No one but me gets to even look at them.

[Duncan Grant]

10. Like buyin' a pig in poke!

This comes from a region of the country where a closet is sometimes called a "press". :hi:

[caledesi]

16. "It;'s wicked good." and others...

Boston - wicked (meaning good)
Grinder - RI - (it's a hoagie, sub etc).
RI (& other areas in RI)(Coffee, regular (if you order a regular coffee in RI, that means coffee, cream and sugar.)
How about a "Frappé?" - milkshake w/ ice cream (RI)
"Cold as a witch's tit." RI - very cold weather
If a car hits another car etc. - it's an accident, not a wreck. RI and NE



I love regional terms.

[sniffa]

18. wicked = very

not good. ;)

[Redstone]

25. You forgot "Tonic,"

Bostonese for soda;

"Upstreet" and "Downstreet," New Englandese for, respectively, away from the center of town, and toward the center of town.

"Jeezly" (an adjective), more common in the part of Vermont where I grew up than the more well-known "Jeezum."

In northern Vermont and New Hampshire, ground beef is not "hamburger," it's "hamburg."

Many older New Englanders still use "receipt" for "recipe."

More later, if I have time.

[calico1]

27. We have grinders here in CT too.

At least the SE part. Don't Rhode Islander's drink that coffee milk too? They sell the syrup here but I have never tried it. I do like the Autocrat coffe though.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

31. "Bang" a Uey: Make a U-Turn

Elastic=Rubber Band
Barrel=Trash Can
Bubbler=Water Fountain
Bullshit=Very Angry
Gravy=Red Sauce
Carriage=Shopping Cart
Divan=Couch, Sofa
Grinder=Sub
Half Moon=Black and White Cookie
Jimmies=Sprinkles (on ice cream)

[MissMarple]

34. We say "hang a uey".

:-)

[Lautremont]

38. We say "doing an onion" or

"doing an onion-baller" for a U-turn; also "hang a uey."

[dbt]

17. "As useless as tits on a boar hog."

From rural Arkansas, of course. And one of my Grandmother's favorites: "I need that about like a chigger needs a sidesaddle."

[evlbstrd]

24. Useless as hen shit on a pump handle.

[Wapsie B]

29. "Useless as nuts on a priest."

[calico1]

28. My fiance says "as useless as

tits on a bull."

[datasuspect]

19. the word "bohunkus"

heard this in se texas a lot: "if you don't get your big bohunkus down from there, i'm on pull a sweetch!"

[datasuspect]

20. "do what?"

multipurpose, texas.

if someone asks you a question and you don't understand.

"skeeter, i want you to get up that tower and check the loader."

"do what?"

[caledesi]

22. Now that's a funny one! Never heard it. nt

[MissMarple]

23. He's more than " a quarter bubble off".

Plainer than a goat's ass uphill.
Faster than salts through a widder woman.

:shrug:

Also
Bat out of hell, as in... He tore through here like a bat outa hell.

[MissMarple]

26. Whatever flips your skirt up. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

[trof]

30. Or your knickers in a twist.

The English version.

[Left Is Write]

32. What I get teased for:

"Hotdish" - to me, this seems self-explanatory, but I get puzzled looks ALLLLL the time.

"I'm going <such and such place>; do you want to come with?" Again, this seems self-explanatory to me, but apparently it's such a Minnesota-ism that non-Minnesotans like to rake me over the coals for it. "Come with what?" they'll say. With ME. To the place I am going.

[trof]

33. "and that.." A Chicagoism

"So we went to see Star Wars and that"

[MissMarple]

35. Also in St. Louis. ..and that, ...and like that.

Brother-in-law says it ALL the time, especially the second form.

[knitter4democracy]

37. "and all . . . " if you're in Michigan

"Hotdish" is a casserole here, although I know people who use hotdish.

"Coke" refers to pretty much all kinds of soda, even Coke. :)

"Stoked" means acting wild and crazy.

"Acting like a dip" means acting like an idiot (which makes the signs "dip in the road" funny).

[Cuban_Liberal]

36. "2 bales short of a wagonload"

Used to describe someone who's not too bright.

[RoyGBiv]

40. Fixin'

And that don't mean I'm repairing anything, unless of course I'm fixin' to repair something.