This is a fun thread. I have a friend who's Mom said "red the table" for clear the table. It must be similar to "red up" the room mentioned earlier. She also said "pouring the rain" when it was raining really hard (she was from West Virginia I think). I also used to work for a man who ended practically every sentence with "whatever like that". I never could figure that one out (and he was an executive at a bank....go figure).