What's a phrase or saying that you learned from your parents that you don't hear others saying?
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First one is from my grandfather, who is really more of a father to me than my own father. Whenever he was expressing delighted astonishment, he would exclaim Caaaaaaaaaaaaaats!
My mother would always say "ass over tea kettle". Don't try to carry all those boxes down the stairs, you're going to fall ass over tea kettle. Or in a funny exaggeratoy way like "he went flying ass over tea kettle".
My father would append the suffixes -aroonie and -areeno. It could just literally apply to any random situation. For example, if he got a good price on apples, he got a deal-areeno. One time his foot slipped and the car blasted through the fence. The ol' smash-aroonie.
Is your dad Ned Flanders?
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never heard other families say "oy vey" growing up. As an adult I learned it's a Jewish saying, and I asked my mom if we are Jewish and she just said no, lol
lol, Hebrew?
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are you 15 or 50
Somewhere inbetween there
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lol, Hebrew?
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Is your dad Ned Flanders?
wrote last edited by [email protected]This aroonie slang was 50/60s era
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Ah right. Should've known, but I wrote this comment at midnight.
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This aroonie slang was 50/60s era
That tracks the leave it to Beaver Era. Would explain the 40 yr old Ned in 1990
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That tracks the leave it to Beaver Era. Would explain the 40 yr old Ned in 1990
Damn this is making a connection I'd never thought about!
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I love this! What is the language? Danish, Swedish, or am I totally off base?
Any time you see way too many double letters and a corresponding overabundance of röckdöts, it's Finnish.
Geographically you're actually close, but linguistically it's very, very far away.
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My Parents would always say "Home, James dont feed the horses". I have absolutely no idea what it means or could mean.
Haha, apparently the original saying is "Home, James, and don't spare the horses". My mum told me it's because a lot of carriage drivers were called James, and don't spare the horses means to be quick about it. I don't know if your parents said it differently because it amused them that way or some other reason, but I suppose the idea is there's no time to feed the horses since we're in a hurry.
