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    Maleah, we use "for pete's sake" and "fair to middlin'" here as well!

    I remember, year's ago we would be visiting my grandmother & when we were leaving she would say, "Come in when you're over to the farm again". I take it that this must have been an old expression she heard when spending some of her summers near a farm as she always lived in the city .

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    Love reading these!

    Thought of a couple more that you may or may not have heard:

    Stick it where the sun don't shine - When someone is being obnoxious and you want to communicate that you couldn't care less about their crap.I hear it used a lot when people are bragging, especially. My understanding is that "where the sun don't shine" is a politer way to say "up your a**." I'm tired of you bragging about how expensive your car is. You can take your fancy car and stick it where the sun don't shine.

    Gone the way of the dodo
    - something isn't around anymore, like the extinct dodo bird. Aw, Bath and Body works doesn't carry shaving cream any more! Guess that went the way of the dodo!

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    We use "for pete's sake" and "stick it (or shove it) where the sun don't shine" too. I love this thread. It's amusing, and genuinely interesting to see which phrases we use both sides of the Atlantic, and which are totally alien to me!

    I remember Eva asked me a while ago what "came up trumps" meant. As in "She did a great job finding a birthday cake for him. She really came up trumps." It means that someone did really well, or kinda hit the jackpot, I guess.

    got a cob on - when someone's sulking or moody. "I told her I couldn't go to the party with her, and now she's really got a cob on!"




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    Quote Originally Posted by sodascouts View Post
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    Gone the way of the dodo - something isn't around anymore, like the extinct dodo bird. Aw, Bath and Body works doesn't carry shaving cream any more! Guess that went the way of the dodo!
    I've never heard that one before!
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    We use dead as a dodo to mean the same thing.


    you better put it all behind you, baby, 'cause life goes on
    you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside--



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    We say "dead as a doornail". I've heard the "dodo" expression but I don't hear it used much.

    Troub, I've never heard the "cob" or that particular "trumps" expressions before!

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    When you're almost deader than a doornail, you might "hear Angel Wings a Flappin".

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    Good one,Mike!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ive always been a dreamer View Post
    Maleah - my grandmother used to say "fair to middlin'" too. There's another one she used to say all the time that I have to figure out how to spell before I can even post it.

    And one of Mike's earlier post remind me of a fairly common one used by us here in Virginia - we say someone is "up the creek without a paddle" whenever someone gets into a sticky situation or is 'SOL'.

    Now re: soda or pop - around here we mostly just say soft drink.

    lol! We say the "up a creek without a paddle" all the time as well!

    Same with the above mentioned "dead as a doornail"

    I always hear "don't let it hit ya where the good Lord split ya" when someone is leaving. Basically the same way of saying "don't let the doorknob hit you on the way out." It seems to generally said when you're annoyed with someone and they're finally leaving. lol

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    My son was talking about a kid at school that considered himself a real bully but Frank didn't think the kid was that tough. I told him "Oh he's a rough, tough, cream buff ". My son had never heard it before. To me it means someone that isn't as tough as they think they are.

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