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We grew up sayin' "cut off the light" instead of "turn off the light"
I still say cut off the lights!
My grandmother always had a big garden and she always planted "okrie" (okra.) The best fried 'okrie' you ever tasted.
Hose Pipe = garden hose
We had three meals daily ... breakfast, dinner and supper. Supper most times consisted of left-overs from dinner.
Shot Gun House = a home usually with three rooms or even four but you could look in the front door and see all the way to the backdoor ... thus you could shoot a shot gun in one door and out the other.
If the sun was shining and it was raining ... it meant the devil was beating his wife.
When you go into a public restroom and people have written their names on the walls ... (you know for a good time call) ... "A fool's name is like a fool's face, it's always seen in a public place." My grandmother was full of these little sayings.
The following two quotes were not used around grandma or any other ladies...censor warning...
If something, or someone, was of no use whatsoever you might say something like, "that's about as useful as ti t s on a boar hog." A boar is a male hog...and well...teats aren't of much use to them.
Then if someone is working hard or doing something, but making no progress you might say, "you're sucking hind tit." The rear teats on a pig evidently produce very little milk. The piglets suck like the devil, but don't get much nourishment from back there.
If a job is nearly complete, you're "getting in the short rows".
Many farm fields are not square. In a square field the rows are all pretty much the same length, but in a non-square field at least one side will have rows shorter than the other. As you're working and getting closer to finishing with a particular field you stand a good chance of "geittin' in the short rows".
If you get a fever blister/cold sore, it's said that you've kissed a red headed....ugh...wait...that isn't politically correct and it's just downright rude. Don't think I'm gonna finish this one.
We had three meals daily ... breakfast, dinner and supper. Supper most times consisted of left-overs from dinner.
Same here. We knew dinner was lunch and that supper was dinner. At the grandparent's house, supper was generally indeed leftovers from dinner...and you could find those leftovers inside a kitchen cabinet right next to the plates & glasses.
Irish potatoes were known as "Arsh Taters".
BBQ meant someone was cooking a pig.
A decent sized stream that branches off a creek is called a slough.
The trunk of a car is called a "boot".
The practice of harvesting tobacco is called "puttin' in". After drying/curing the tobacco in a barn for a week or more you have to bungle it up in sheets for market (that's how it used to be done...now it's in bales like cotton). The process of taking the tobacco out of the barn after curing is simply known as "takin' out". During the growth cycle of a tobacco plant it produces a flowering bunch on top of the plant and grows suckers between the branches and the stalk...just like many other plants do. The suckers dry green and isn't marketable and the flowers suck weight producing energy from the leaves. The job of removing these is called "toppin' & suckerin' ". The last time you are able to plow a field of tobacco before the plants are too large for the plow to travel through the field is called "layin' by".
The phrase “The Whole Nine Yards” originated with W.W.II aircraft .50 caliber machine guns ammunition belts. The .50 caliber, both in heavy bombers and in fighter aircraft had 27 foot ammunition belts. One large ammo can held a 27ft belt. It became a common phrase to say that a pilot or gunner “gave ‘em the whole nine yards” Emptying the whole 27 ft. belt into the enemy.
Anyone who puts forward an explanation of an origin for 'the whole nine yards' which dates it to before the 1960s has to explain the lack of a printed record of it prior to 1962. If, to take the most commonly repeated version for instance, the phrase comes from the length of WWII machine gun belts, why is there no printed account of that in the thousands of books written about the war and the countless millions of newspaper editions published throughout the 1950s and 60s?
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