What's a phrase or saying that you learned from your parents that you don't hear others saying?
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My mom's exasperated "shit a fiddle!" when fed up with something / something broke. When I was younger, she didn't really say curse words around me except for this.
I've never heard any one else ever say this. Not in Appalachia, or anywhere. She probably made it up herself. But in the 80s she also dated a Korean War fighter pilot/POW (crashed, survived, & captured, unsure of release details). And he could have had a creative catalog of swears that she borrowed from.
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"We're merrily going bankrupt"/ " We're merrily destroying ourselves"
(Two version because it's a translation)
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My wife always gives me shit for saying "six of one, half a dozen of the other."
Very common saying with lots of links (merriam-webster, dictionary, wiktionary, grammarist)
Is your wife from somewhere very isolated or exotic? Or does she simply want you to add more variety to your discourse? Toh-may-toh/Toh-mah-toh
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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend's nose
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Instead of swearing my mother would with say Snivelswitch or Son of a seacooks dishclothe.
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Onward and sideways.
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I love this! What is the language? Danish, Swedish, or am I totally off base?
It's Finnish
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"Super cool" - my dad
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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend's nose
Very true, that
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Very common saying with lots of links (merriam-webster, dictionary, wiktionary, grammarist)
Is your wife from somewhere very isolated or exotic? Or does she simply want you to add more variety to your discourse? Toh-may-toh/Toh-mah-toh
She's got it in her head this is an old person expression. To be honest I can't remember hearing other people use it much in recent years, but maybe I just don't notice.
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My dad referred to all fast food as KenTacoHut. Trucks as Pick-em-up-trucks. I know it’s a thing, but I don’t really hear anyone saying “a month of Sundays” to mean “a long time” since he passed.
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I'm guessing small brains?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I assumed something similar, but ended up looking it up. Apparently It means there are lots of them. Teeming.
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Dad: "I'm so T-A-R-D tired, I could F-A-R-T faint."
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“You’re so handsome”
I bet you think this song is about you...
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Mum had a few:
"Home, James"
"Lead on, McDuff"
"You're lucky I love you"
"You're big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself"
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Mum had a few:
"Home, James"
"Lead on, McDuff"
"You're lucky I love you"
"You're big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself"
I say "Lead on McDuff" all the time
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Mum had a few:
"Home, James"
"Lead on, McDuff"
"You're lucky I love you"
"You're big enough and ugly enough to take care of yourself"
My mama says the first two a lot.
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“Life sucks and then you die.”
Thanks dad.
This places your dad solidly in Gen X.
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My grandpa when he would get up from a chair/the couch he would always say, "Going to have to call American Hoist and Derrick".
Now, as I'm north of 40 I found myself saying it too which is funny since the company left the market where I live 9 years ago.
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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but never pick your friend's nose
I learned that from Grimm adventures of Billy and Mandy
