phrases that puzzle me
12-10-2009, 02:00 PM
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"Rat killing" as in to be doing something. okay; I will let you go back to your rat killing now.
**ew - only had to handle a rat 1 time & the cat took care of that....
"gallivanting" - to wander about. (dictionary.com also has to go about with members of the opposite sex as a definition)
**I'm in a 4-way stop in the middle of nowhere; where would I gallivant???
**ew - only had to handle a rat 1 time & the cat took care of that....
"gallivanting" - to wander about. (dictionary.com also has to go about with members of the opposite sex as a definition)
**I'm in a 4-way stop in the middle of nowhere; where would I gallivant???
12-10-2009, 02:44 PM
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Ya'll don't throw things at me but just once I wish we could have some real snow & not the one inch we get sometimes. Last time I remember having anything was 20 years ago. We are due for a good ice storm. Bet this will be the year. We have a lot trees in our county & it does cause a lot of trouble as the breaking trees causes the power to go out. That means my kids will be moving in for a week or 2 as they live in the country.
12-10-2009, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by MadQuilter
Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other. It took me a long time to figure out what "sixaone" was. lol
12-10-2009, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Debra Mc
Ya'll don't throw things at me but just once I wish we could have some real snow & not the one inch we get sometimes. Last time I remember having anything was 20 years ago. We are due for a good ice storm. Bet this will be the year. We have a lot trees in our county & it does cause a lot of trouble as the breaking trees causes the power to go out. That means my kids will be moving in for a week or 2 as they live in the country.
12-10-2009, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ERhausfrau
Originally Posted by Rhonda
A phrase I use all the time is Holler when you're ready or Holler if you need me. I don't think anything of it til I wrote it on the board and I thought boy they must really think I am a hick! Ok A hick who lives in the sticks!! someone who is backwards(doesn't know much) and lives out in the far back regions and doesn't have much contact with the civilized world! Iowa has this stigma that everyone who lives in Iowa is a hick. No brains and no manners.
Another version of the holler is-- It's just a hoot and a holler away.
Another version of the holler is-- It's just a hoot and a holler away.
I just got out my handy-dandy little atlas and found you are in the southern part of Iowa. I hope you didn't get blasted like we did! Our relatives in Cedar Rapids said they got it pretty good - around 11".
All of our state is just joking with Iowa with the jokes. It is just too bad they are all true!!!!! Just joking! Edie
We got about 5" or so of snow but it turned to rain later in the day on Tues and now we have ice under the snow. I went up to the post office earlier today and the town streets are snow covered ice. Not much fun to drive on but par for the course for Iowa. At least it wasn't the 12" to 16" they were predicting. When I went out to start the van there was about 3" of snow ontop and it was crusted with an icy crust on top.
12-10-2009, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ERhausfrau
Originally Posted by Rhonda
A phrase I use all the time is Holler when you're ready or Holler if you need me. I don't think anything of it til I wrote it on the board and I thought boy they must really think I am a hick! Ok A hick who lives in the sticks!! someone who is backwards(doesn't know much) and lives out in the far back regions and doesn't have much contact with the civilized world! Iowa has this stigma that everyone who lives in Iowa is a hick. No brains and no manners.
Another version of the holler is-- It's just a hoot and a holler away.
Another version of the holler is-- It's just a hoot and a holler away.
I just got out my handy-dandy little atlas and found you are in the southern part of Iowa. I hope you didn't get blasted like we did! Our relatives in Cedar Rapids said they got it pretty good - around 11".
All of our state is just joking with Iowa with the jokes. It is just too bad they are all true!!!!! Just joking! Edie
We got about 5" or so of snow but it turned to rain later in the day on Tues and now we have ice under the snow. I went up to the post office earlier today and the town streets are snow covered ice. Not much fun to drive on but par for the course for Iowa. At least it wasn't the 12" to 16" they were predicting. When I went out to start the van there was about 3" of snow ontop and it was crusted with an icy crust on top.
12-11-2009, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Loretta
Where did the phrase "catch my drift" come from? I know what it means- to understand. But cannot imagine where it originated?
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