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In parallel to the "Grammar Pet Peeves" thread, please list your favorite, or the most annoying, local idioms.
Let me start off with a few of my personal Texas favorites.
* When one has an attack of hives, the resulting rash is often described as whelps: "Look at this; I've got whelps all over my arms."
* When one is exhausted: "I had a long day and I'm real tarred."
* When one has traveled a significant distance: "I come a fur piece."
* When describing a person who boasts: "He's all hat and no cattle."
* When something may be possible in the future: "I might could do that for y'all."
* When rainfall is imminent: "It's fixin' ta come a toad choker."
TEST: Can any of y'all damnyankees define an all patch?
Edit: Not to be outdone by Leslie's Maine signature...
Let me start off with a few of my personal Texas favorites.
* When one has an attack of hives, the resulting rash is often described as whelps: "Look at this; I've got whelps all over my arms."
* When one is exhausted: "I had a long day and I'm real tarred."
* When one has traveled a significant distance: "I come a fur piece."
* When describing a person who boasts: "He's all hat and no cattle."
* When something may be possible in the future: "I might could do that for y'all."
* When rainfall is imminent: "It's fixin' ta come a toad choker."
TEST: Can any of y'all damnyankees define an all patch?
Edit: Not to be outdone by Leslie's Maine signature...
