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RE: Colloquialisms
(08-27-2015 01:06 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  cotton pickin heart

careful...
08-27-2015 09:58 AM
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RE: Colloquialisms
(08-27-2015 09:58 AM)Willie Becton Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 01:06 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  cotton pickin heart

careful...

cruisin for a bruisin
08-27-2015 02:20 PM
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RE: Colloquialisms
(08-27-2015 02:20 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 09:58 AM)Willie Becton Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 01:06 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  cotton pickin heart

careful...

cruisin for a bruisin

'bout to open that six pack of whoop ass.
08-27-2015 03:50 PM
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RE: Colloquialisms
(08-27-2015 02:20 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 09:58 AM)Willie Becton Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 01:06 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  cotton pickin heart

careful...

cruisin for a bruisin

He ain't the brightest bulb in the box.
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RE: Colloquialisms
(08-27-2015 03:52 PM)poppaslaw Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 02:20 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 09:58 AM)Willie Becton Wrote:  
(08-27-2015 01:06 AM)snowtiger Wrote:  cotton pickin heart

careful...

cruisin for a bruisin

He ain't the brightest bulb in the box.

Yep.. a couple biscuits short of a picnic.
08-27-2015 04:11 PM
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RE: Colloquialisms
Take off your school clothes before you go out and play.
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RE: Colloquialisms
(09-09-2015 11:47 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Take off your clothes before you go out and play.

I always do.
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This may have been mentioned already, it came up in a meeting the other day and although I have heard it all my life, it made me wonder about the origin and then made me a little queasy.

"There's more than one way to skin a cat"

ouch.
09-11-2015 08:21 AM
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RE: Colloquialisms
(09-11-2015 08:21 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  This may have been mentioned already, it came up in a meeting the other day and although I have heard it all my life, it made me wonder about the origin and then made me a little queasy.

"There's more than one way to skin a cat"

ouch.

Yep, that's one we probably still hear occasionally, but definitely a collo.
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RE: Colloquialisms
I remember one of my favorite authors Lewis Grizzard. He said, " Life is like a dog sled team, if you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
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that's all she wrote...
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RE: Colloquialisms
clod hopper
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RE: Colloquialisms
(09-16-2015 04:39 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  clod hopper

The thread about Catholic school girls made you remember that.
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yea you nailed it...those spaldings with white gym socks that we wore
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(09-16-2015 09:03 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  yea you nailed it...those spaldings with white gym socks that we wore

I figured so. The heels should have been much higher.
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RE: Colloquialisms
bettered.


He bettered hisself.


Daddy grew up a sharecropper in Mis'sippi;he moved to Memfis and bettered hisself.
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(09-30-2015 02:17 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  bettered.


He bettered hisself.


Daddy grew up a sharecropper in Mis'sippi;he moved to Memfis and bettered hisself.

Which also spawned 'betters.'
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Which came first? The betters or the bettered.
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(09-30-2015 02:41 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Which came first? The betters or the bettered.

Not being a philologist I can only guess, but probably betters, which is a noun, with bettered being a verb?
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(09-30-2015 02:44 PM)TigerBill Wrote:  
(09-30-2015 02:41 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  Which came first? The betters or the bettered.

Not being a philologist I can only guess, but probably betters, which is a noun, with bettered being a verb?

I dunno. I almost hear 'em springing up simultaneously.

Boy, don't you be talkin to your betters that way till you done bettered yourself.

Best hear me out, girl. Keep your mind on bettering yourself afore talkin to your betters that way.
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