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Message 1855402 - Posted: 14 Mar 2017, 0:10:11 UTC

Colloquialisms.

Your local or everyday sayings that don't always make immediate sense to others but that you know the meaning of.

Origins, meanings or more sayings...

Explain or better still have fun with kind retort...


I hope I don't get your goat :) ???
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Message 1855417 - Posted: 14 Mar 2017, 1:05:48 UTC - in response to Message 1855402.  

I'm sure Kentucky has it's share of colloquialisms, but I'm drawing a blank right now. We do use "get your goat", but I don't know where that came from. Do you?
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Message 1855431 - Posted: 14 Mar 2017, 1:28:11 UTC - in response to Message 1855417.  
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I'm sure Kentucky has it's share of colloquialisms, but I'm drawing a blank right now. We do use "get your goat", but I don't know where that came from. Do you?


To get someones goat or to catch it simply means: To "annoy you" or "be annoyed".....

Not sure where it originated as goats aren't our currency in Britain nowadays but most likely a Mediterranean or Asia \ Africa thing.

As far as I am aware the Judaic tradition has the tradition of laying the sins of the community on a goat and letting it go into the wild (Black Sheep \ Goat?)

Thinking about Greko \ Roman traditions it might mean someone gets your passions going.. As in the goated one.. Pan.. But that might be stretching it.

Anyway if I stole your goat I would get your attention or annoy you if goats were important to you :)

Possibly if I grabbed your beard of goaty it would annoy you equally???

"A bird in the hand is worth three in the bush" is an easier one to understand like "a stich in time saves nine."

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Message 1855480 - Posted: 14 Mar 2017, 4:39:06 UTC

"Blood from a stone.." ???

Where did that come from?

They could have said 'water from the sun or 'cheese from a rock'...

but why blood? or why stone?
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Message 1855495 - Posted: 14 Mar 2017, 5:50:05 UTC

gangway
Any one who lived/lives in chicago knows what this means- its the sidewalk between two extremely close houses
i saw the b--- run through the gangway, only to jump the fence and meet my dog.

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Message 1855532 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 1:23:07 UTC - in response to Message 1855495.  

gangway
Any one who lived/lives in chicago knows what this means- its the sidewalk between two extremely close houses
i saw the b--- run through the gangway, only to jump the fence and meet my dog.


This reminds me... In Louisville, we have shotguns and camelbacks. Without looking it up, does anyone know what these are are referring to? (Hint: some people live in them)
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Message 1855541 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 2:12:32 UTC - in response to Message 1855532.  

[quote]This reminds me... In Louisville, we have shotguns and camelbacks. Without looking it up, does anyone know what these are are referring to? (Hint: some people live in them)


Shacks? Only guessing due to Talking Heads' lyric "You may find yourself... living in a shotgun shack."
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Message 1855547 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 2:37:21 UTC - in response to Message 1855541.  

[quote]This reminds me... In Louisville, we have shotguns and camelbacks. Without looking it up, does anyone know what these are are referring to? (Hint: some people live in them)


Shacks? Only guessing due to Talking Heads' lyric "You may find yourself... living in a shotgun shack."


Lol, David Byrne never saw mine. I have a nice shotgun, and I've considered turning it into a camelback.
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Message 1855562 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 5:28:13 UTC

Is this thread for real, or are you pulling my leg?
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Message 1855565 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 6:15:03 UTC - in response to Message 1855532.  

This reminds me... In Louisville, we have shotguns and camelbacks. Without looking it up, does anyone know what these are are referring to?

Shotgun is a double barreled bang stick but could be a blowback off 2 lit joints at once , but probably not ;-)
Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)
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Message 1855566 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 6:18:02 UTC

I'll add; "Were your ears burning last night?"

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Shotgun house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house

Camelback Shotgun
https://www.pinterest.com/pcturlich/camelback-shotgun
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Message 1855571 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 6:57:32 UTC

Here is one I heard when I was stationed at Otis AFB on Cape Cod. All the locals used the saying( and I will be nice) Your butt is sucking Canal water.
From what the locals could tell me , Was that during construction of the Cape Cod Canal there was some very fierce opposition to it.
The meaning I got from the folks who used it, Was your full of B.S.
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Message 1855637 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 17:58:08 UTC - in response to Message 1855579.  

Is this thread for real, or are you pulling my leg?
Has it got any bells on it?

I'll add; "Were your ears burning last night?"
When people hear something embarrassing about them, they blush, and their ear lobes go red because of the enhanced blood supply.

Quite true but mine is referring to a person being talked about who is 'out of ear shot' (hearing range) and they sensed it. Ergo ear burn.
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Message 1855661 - Posted: 15 Mar 2017, 21:00:43 UTC

A colloquialism is a word, phrase or other form used in informal language.
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Message 1855745 - Posted: 16 Mar 2017, 11:15:06 UTC

On Monday, I had an appointment out in the boonies. It was like the ends of the earth.
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Message 1855748 - Posted: 16 Mar 2017, 12:12:36 UTC

It is said that if you pinch your ear, the person talking of you will bite his own tongue. ;-)

Nit picking aside however - "colloquialism" is indeed a synonym for idiom ;-)
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Message 1855768 - Posted: 16 Mar 2017, 14:44:29 UTC

Boy howdy, somebodies ears have been on fire.

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Message 1855803 - Posted: 16 Mar 2017, 17:41:26 UTC

Pilgrim...
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Message 1856283 - Posted: 18 Mar 2017, 12:12:50 UTC

It's raining cats and dogs.
Hmmm:)
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Message 1856291 - Posted: 18 Mar 2017, 12:32:48 UTC - in response to Message 1856283.  

It's raining cats and dogs.


I know... I just stepped in a poodle. 😀
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