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"Don't get your panties in a twist/knickers in a bunch/penis in a vagina" calm down "It's hosed six ways from Sunday" it's hosed "Smooth move, Exlax" good job, sarcastic "In a pickle" we have a problem
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Lookit, do you guys come from a "lookit" zone? Because, lookit, some people just say "look" instead of "lookit".
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I remembered some other drunk-related terms, because I am sitting in a bar: Ham-faced, getting wrecked, poo poo-faced, sloshed. Another one, not drink-related: "fer sure" as a catch-all Canadianism, plus, "just gonna sneak right past ya," uttered by many a Canadian in a grocery store when trying to get somebody to move out of the way.
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Dec 12, 2017 22:05
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AlbieQuirky posted:Lookit, do you guys come from a "lookit" zone? Because, lookit, some people just say "look" instead of "lookit". In Newfoundland it's just "luh".
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Dec 12, 2017 22:31
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Jeza posted:"Moor" is not a homophone for "More" in lots of parts of the UK. It's more like "Moo-ah" or "Moo-er"and "Poor" is like "Poo-ah" or "Poo-er". I guess if you squished together how you pronounce Pu Erh Tea.
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CommonShore posted:I would love some transliterations of strange Icelandic and Finnish sayings. I imagine that they're things like "that is not my fermented shark which is the one in the derby which worries the gentlemen in question" for "no thanks." Tefla við páfann - "Play chess with the Pope" Take a poo poo. Þar stendur hnífurinn í kúnni - "The knife is stuck in the cow" Something is at an impasse Að koma eins og skrattinn úr sauðarleggnum - "Springing like the Devil from the sheep's leg" When someone shows up suddenly and unexpectedly. References a folktale where the devil is fooled into shrinking down and squeezing himself into a sheep's legbone which is then sealed with a cork. Kallar ekki allt ömmu sína - "doesn't call everything her grandmother" To not care about insignificant things or to be generally fearless. Áfram með smjörið! - "On with the butter!" Let's get on with it. Ég skal sýna honum hvar Davíð keypti ölið - "I'll how him where David bought the ale" I will viciously beat him. Farðu norður og niður - "Go north and down" gently caress off. Ég skal finna þig í fjöru - "I'll find you on the shore" I will hunt you down. Ég mun koma þér fyrir kattarnef - "I'll put you in front of a cat's nose" I will murder you. Aldrei migið í saltan sjó "Never pissed in the salty sea" Used to refer to someone naive and inexperienced especially when it comes to work. Especially when someone has never worked as a fisherman. Detti mér allar dauðar lýs úr höfði! "May all the dead lice fall from my head!" An expression of shock Þetta er ekki upp á marga fiska - "[Something] is not worth many fishes" When something is worthless or at best mediocre. Ég kem af fjöllum - "I come from the mountains." Basically "I have no idea what you're talking about" Kaupa köttinn í seknum - "Buying the cat in the sack" Specifically to buy something without first seeing it and it not being worth the purchase. Can also be used more generally if you're swindled. Það er maðkur í mysunni - "There's a maggot in the whey" Something is suspicious.
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Dec 13, 2017 04:03
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Tired and emotional - drunk (used in e.g. parliament as accusing someone of being drunk in parliament is Not Done) Overwrought - drunk (same reason) Not quite himself - drunk (likewise... accusing lawmakers of being poo poo-faced is an art-form) Pissed - drunk ('Pissed off' is angry; Americans just using 'pissed' for angry is weird) Pissed as a newt/fart - really drunk which of course leads to some politicians being described as "as tired and emotional as a newt"
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You can paint your sawdust green, but it still won't feed your sheep.
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Another: The devil is beating his wife: What happens when it rains while the sun is shining; A sunshower. Also, my area tends to refer to a shopping cart as a buggy.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Another: I use that one. Isn't it a Southern saying?
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A lot of people on my area use the pronunciation "ki-yote" for coyote.
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idk what regional things are just national things since I grew up in a pretty vernacularly sanitized part of Kansas where we got most sayings from TV and stuff Is it a common thing to respond to "how's it goin'" with "can't complain", meaning, 'not bad, not good, pleasantries exchanged'?
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FreudianSlippers posted:Þetta er ekki upp á marga fiska - "[Something] is not worth many fishes" All of these are great but this is 
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DigitalRaven posted:Tired and emotional - drunk (used in e.g. parliament as accusing someone of being drunk in parliament is Not Done) I really hope civil service euphemisms count: discussing Ugandan relations = shagging while at work full and frank discussions = there was blood on the floor after the meeting Give me a steer on that = what exactly is you want me to say? Hope this is helpful / Please do not hesitate to contact me = Never talk to me again Thank you for bringing this to my attention = how the gently caress did you find out about this, I'm really in the soup now It isn't a beauty contest = when the public hates your idea but you're going to do it anyway
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tight aspirations posted:I'm really in the soup now I found one hiding in the descriptors!
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Peanut Butler posted:idk what regional things are just national things since I grew up in a pretty vernacularly sanitized part of Kansas where we got most sayings from TV and stuff Common enough here in the Southeast (Atlanta). That's my standard answer. My dad has a couple that have always amused me, but I have never heard anyone but him say them: "that makes my butt wanna eat soda crackers" = "I am annoyed" "that makes my butt wanna eat a banana split" = "I am GREATLY annoyed"
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Peanut Butler posted:idk what regional things are just national things since I grew up in a pretty vernacularly sanitized part of Kansas where we got most sayings from TV and stuff That one has gone international - you hear it regularly here (Ireland). Another possible response to the same question is 'Ah sure, you know yourself...', meaning something like , 'You also know the day-to-day struggles of life, you don't need me to tell you about them'
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HaB posted:My dad has a couple that have always amused me, but I have never heard anyone but him say them: my dad almost always says some variation on "drat glad/thrilled to be alive/breathing" and lets his tone carry the meaning, but I think that's a my dad thing I feel like I've seen the can't complain thing in international media, it's a favorite of the 50-something regulars at the bar I used to work at. Kansas City is a weird place, slang-wise, we get kind of a melange of Minnesota and Mississippi, Virginia and California, with a bunch of Germanic stuff from old settlers in the background. I attribute this sort of to geography, but more to the fact that most families that live here moved in since the 1970s from all over to find work one thing I share with Pennsylvanians I've known is the Germanic sentence construction, 'the X needs Y', as in 'its nice out, so the car needs washed' or 'the cake batter needs stirred' or 'the check needs cashed'- that's about the only thing I can think of that I used to think was normal until someone new to the area pointed it out to me also I had a friend in elementary school whose nordern parents said 'oofta' to mean 'aw jeez' or 'oy vey'; intensified to 'ooftagod' or, my favorite, 'ooftabygodjeezus'- that an etymologically Scandi thing?
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"I can dig it" I understand or I'm somewhat interested "It's cold/hot as balls" it's very cold/hot "Doing paperwork/sorting some papers" jacking off at work "More than one way to skin a cat" more than one way to do something
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Huh. Up here, the correct response to “Awright?” or “Howzitgoan?” is to say one of the two right back. It’s a greeting, not a question.
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Peanut Butler posted:also I had a friend in elementary school whose nordern parents said 'oofta' to mean 'aw jeez' or 'oy vey'; intensified to 'ooftagod' or, my favorite, 'ooftabygodjeezus'- that an etymologically Scandi thing? Yeah, in Norwegian it's spelled "uff da", never heard it combined with God or Jesus though.
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makes sense- his mom's a Methodist (? maybe some other flavor of protestant idk) pastor, and midwesterners love our religious swears almost as much as the Quebecois
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More military ones I heard a lot: Love a duck: loving hell Fanroom Counseling: Beat someone's rear end to teach em a lesson Buying Bus Fare: Selling out everyone Throwing em under a bus: Same as above, sticking someone with blame Health and Comfort: Shakedown for contraband Having a shower party: Forcing someone to bathe when they refuse to for a long period of time, against their will Make it rain: Exercise so hard for punishment that the condensation runs down walls in the room (actually can happen) Seaman Shrug: "I dunno, I'm the newbie" Shopping in your buddy's store: Having an affair with someone's spouse while that spouse it at sea Base Bicycle, Base Welcoming Committee: Local Girl/Guy on base who sleeps with every guy/girl who comes on base, in a relationship or not
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Get your rear end in gear - hurry up, stop messing around. My dad’s particular favorite aimed at my sister and I.
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DigitalRaven posted:Huh. Up here, the correct response to “Awright?” or “Howzitgoan?” is to say one of the two right back. It’s a greeting, not a question. I also prefer the Scottish idiom synonyms for bullshit: 'Get tae gently caress/Come way tae gently caress'. Much more indignant-sounding.
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Here's a few more Finnish ones. Ongelma on se, jos alkoholia ei ole. The problem is if there is no alcohol. Joka toista tökkii, niin kyllä se jossain vaiheessa siellä alapäässä alkaa tuntua, ettei olisi kannattanut tökkiä väärään paikkaan. If you poke someone, at some point you feel in your nether regions, that you shouldn't have poked at the wrong place. Ruokarauha se on merirosvollakin. Even a pirate can eat in peace.
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Like horses in a storm = describing two people holding each other with chins on each other's shoulder.
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doverhog posted:Ruokarauha se on merirosvollakin. There's a children's book in here somewhere about a pirate captain who just wants a snack and a nap goddamnit but NOOOOO we have to go fight off the navy and find buried treasure and make friends with mermaids and *grumble grumble grumble* Speaking of which, I have heard porn referred to as "grumble" before, but only in Viz
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Claggy = lovely Croggie = to give someone a ride on the back of your bike Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey = it's cold out From the above real brass monkey weather = the weather is cold I'm going over the town = I'm going to the nearest large town
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If you want to marry Prince Charming, you better like kissing frogs. - No free lunch/work hard if you want success
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moms friend from work posted:"Just because a cat has her kittens in the oven don't make them biscuits." "Dogs born in stables aren't horses" Commonly used by racists referring to children of immigrants.
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I like the phrase "the dog's bollocks" for things that are very good, because I've read that the origin of this is that you can infer from how much dogs love to lick their balls, their balls must taste very good. Could be folk etymology, but one I can get behind. I guess there's been a lot of Norwegian input already but I'll add some anyway: Ta ein kjent kar i handa "To shake hands with a close acquaintance": To urinate Legge ein kabel "To lay a cable": to defecate drat, those are the only two I could think of. I guess we're pretty boring. Grevling has a new favorite as of 22:43 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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Where I live, we measure distance in time. Like, it's not forty miles to that city, it's about forty minutes.
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Grevling posted:
Huh. "Laying pipe" is slang for sex in English
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- Don't know whether to poo poo or go blind. - (When faced with two of something) One to poo poo on and one to bury it with. - Every which way come Sunday (a variation on "six ways to Sunday") I'll have more, and some Japanese ones, later. Also, I've lived in metro Detroit all my 40 years and have neither heard nor said "ope." WTF
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"We're not here to gently caress spiders" - Australian for we're here to do a job right now
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These first two are general English sayings: "Like a bat out of hell" for suddenly getting up and running away quickly "Don't let the door hit your rear end" means gently caress you as the other person is leaving. "Close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades" for when you almost do something but fall short. (Do people play horseshoes outside America?) Someone already said "Bless their heart" which is my absolute southern favorite. The context is everything. Used sincerely its interchangable with "Thank You". Otherwise its used in a sense of "If you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all". Its like a polite/indirect way to say someone is dumb. "Satan in a sunday hat". Old southern ladies are known for their large, colorful hats worn to church. So this means something that appears beautiful, but is bad underneath. "Sweatin' like a whore in church" for one of those hot and humid summer days. "Preaching to the choir" when someone is needlessly ranting to others that already know or agree. That person is a "snake in the grass" refers to someone who will lies or cheats you That person "has a hair up their rear end" for when someone is complaining or overly annoyed "Happier than a pig in poo poo" is pretty self explanatory As a kid, you knew your parents were serious when they said "I'll give you something to cry about". Similarly, its southern tradition to tell the kids to "go pick their switch" which means go find the stick I'm going to spank you with. The build up to that is typically telling the kids to "go play in traffic" when the parents are losing patience. Or "go kick rocks" as in go do this useless activity far away from me. "Nuttier than a fruitcake/than squirrel poo poo" for a crazy person. There's a few more southern sayings that come to mind but they're pretty racist (go figure) so I'll pass on posting them
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Leavemywife posted:Where I live, we measure distance in time. Like, it's not forty miles to that city, it's about forty minutes. Where, roughly, are you from? I've lived in a lot of places and that's been a thing everywhere I can remember.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Where, roughly, are you from? I've lived in a lot of places and that's been a thing everywhere I can remember. Michigan. I wasn't sure if that was a regional thing or not, since I haven't traveled much. And the friends I do have in other states and areas, we don't talk much about that sort of thing.
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nightchild12 posted:Ones that I've heard used in conversation: I'm also from the south. Bless his heart owns.
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