Ever hear the phrase No Wheretoall?
02-18-2014, 07:23 AM
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Well, I am from a different North and heard "wherewithal" from my grandparents and parents....meaning like some said.....generally meaning, no gumption, energy, lazy, knowledge..etc. was often substituted for "no gumption"
02-18-2014, 10:40 AM
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My Grandparents used the term 'No Wherewithall' and my Pops says it was used to describe people who chose to be lazy and thinking that every body as well as the government owed them --I just call them shiftless trash..
02-18-2014, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by moonwork42029
Living in the south, it is a kinder way of referring to someone slightly off kilter in their common sense and desire to do something...at least that's the way I've always taken it. I haven't heard that saying for a good many years come to think of it. I know my Grandmother use to say it about some folks down the road. Kinda like not having any gumption. "He could fix that porch but he has no wheretoall to do it".
02-19-2014, 04:01 AM
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My family in the south had and has a lot of neat ways of saying things. No wheretoall must be like that. A southern colloquialism.
If asked where something was, my grandmother always replied "Out yonder" and we never knew where yonder was. It really cracked us up.
Edie, Piepatch is the first QBer who responded here. Hee hee.
If asked where something was, my grandmother always replied "Out yonder" and we never knew where yonder was. It really cracked us up.
Edie, Piepatch is the first QBer who responded here. Hee hee.
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