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 :) ???

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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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

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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"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?

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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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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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

[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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[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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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Is this thread for real, or are you pulling my leg?

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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 ;-)

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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 !!;-)

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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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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Old James

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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A colloquialism is a word, phrase or other form used in informal language.

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On Monday, I had an appointment out in the boonies. It was like the ends of the earth.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

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 ;-)

Boy howdy, somebodies ears have been on fire.

;^)

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Pilgrim...

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It's raining cats and dogs.
Hmmm:)

It's raining cats and dogs.

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

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