Archive through March 14, 2001

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Leap

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 12:03 am Click here to edit this post

Recently, I started hearing the expression, My Bad, from my students. I even think I remember seeing it posted somewhere on this site. Just last week, I saw it in a new book called, The First Counsel, by Brad Meltzer.

Where did this expression come from and what does it mean?

Do you have a weird expression to share with us? Do folks say something strange in your area of the world?

Maire

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 02:44 am Click here to edit this post

Well, here's one that some may take offense to. I personally don't use it or like it even. But someone I know say's "How Gay" to describe something they think is really stupid or lame. Anyone else hear that one? It's certainly not PC.

Mishamisha

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 06:47 am Click here to edit this post

I like "Bygones" from Ally McBeal. Don't watch the show a lot, but love the guy who says it. Like that's going to wipe away the awful thing he just did/said :)

I hate "WhatEVER", when it's said to dismiss someone's ideas/comments. (Heh, but I still use it sometimes,)

Leap: sorry, but I don't know where "My Bad" came from. Prolly a sit-com. I use it sometimes, but usually only when talking to my younger brothers & sisters-in-law.

Norwican

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 07:01 am Click here to edit this post

I don't know where any of these came from but...

"knee high to a grasshopper"
"older than dirt"
"like white on rice"
"can't dance and it's too wet to plow"
"save the drama for your mama"

In Wisconsin we call water fountains bubblers.

Rollerboy

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 07:27 am Click here to edit this post

"my bad" is urban slang and means "sorry, my mistake", Leap. Just shorthand. It originated on the basketball courts.

Guruchaz

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 07:53 am Click here to edit this post

I have one:

"it really whips the werewolf's ass"


That means: I ly it aloh! It roh!


Rollerboy

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:08 am Click here to edit this post

"she looks like she was rode hard and put away wet"

"I was drunk when I went to bed, drunk when I got up and I've been getting drunker ever since. I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent." CAG '72

Twiggyish

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:24 am Click here to edit this post

In Florida a soda is a soft drink. In the midwest, they call it pop.

I used to know someone who called an umbrella, a "bumbleshoot".

The one expression that I think is overused is "guesstimate".

Rollerboy

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:33 am Click here to edit this post

"if 'ifs' and 'buts' were candy and nuts, we'd all get something for Christmas"

Norwican

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:35 am Click here to edit this post

Twiggy... I call soda... soda, and I'm in the Midwest. Maybe in other parts of Midwest they call it pop?

I agree with you on guessitmate.

Leap

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:53 am Click here to edit this post

If wishes were horses, beggers would ride.

Where I grew up, in the midwest, we called it soda. But, we also had some other unusual expressions -

--bubbler, like Nor said

--bakery was the name for anything you could buy in a bakery (I am hungry for some bakery)

--a cooler was a popsicle

--instead of saying, I am going to Sue's house we would say, I am going down by Sue's house or just, I am going by Sue's house

--we have many German/Yiddishisms spread throughout our language. For example, Instead of saying, Can I have a sip of your drink, we would say, Can I have a schluck of your drink.

--Often words beginning with the letter S became Sch. For example, smelt fish was pronounced schmelt fish.

I grew up in a smaller city north of Milwaukee on Lake Michigan. I know some of these were used throughout SE WI, but others were specific to our city.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:54 am Click here to edit this post

Nor, I don't know.. but the midwestern tourists sure call it that..lol

Max

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 08:54 am Click here to edit this post

"Well that just roasts my chestnuts!"

If you ever visit Ireland, don't ask anyone if they can give you a ride. It's a sexual innuendo over there!

Personal favorites that I use a lot:
"Bite me!"
"It could happen!"
"It's all comedy!"

How about the old Ike & Tina Turner song title "Funkier than a Mosquito's Tweeter"?

Digilady

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 09:07 am Click here to edit this post

"Hotter than a half f*cked fox in a forest fire."

<snark>

<snurge> = stealing a lighter
(my friends and I invent words!)

Middle-sized Foot (The beast who roams Tennessee and leaves trampled beer cans in his wake)

Me too, "Rode hard and put up wet." Natch, it's a horseman's expression. When you work a horse, they sweat. The idea is to walk/bathe them, until they're dry.

My mom loves "I look like 10 miles of chewed string!"

Elitist

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 09:36 am Click here to edit this post

Coyote ugly.

Rollerboy

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 10:59 am Click here to edit this post

"Hotter than a two dollar pistol on Saturday night"

Guruchaz

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 11:18 am Click here to edit this post

one slice short of a full loaf

one encyclopedia short of a full set

one pancake short of a full stack

one pixel short of a full screen

Noslonna

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 11:41 am Click here to edit this post

An expression used by people that have had cabins for years on Comox Lake is "up the lake talk." It generally means something that is not to be repeated or a warning not to talk about something.

It comes from when the men took their kids (usually sons) up to the cabins for hunting or fishing trips. The rule was that anything seen or heard was not to be repeated at home (usually to moms) because it was "up the lake talk."

Bearcatuc

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 12:06 pm Click here to edit this post

Twiggish, I am also originally from the Midwest and still call all soft drinks "Pop". While living in New Jersey they were called "Soda" and in North Carolina, all soft drinks are referred to as a "Coke". Where I'm from, a soda is ice cream with Ginger Ale or 7-Up mixed in. I do not like to refer to soft drinks as a "Coke", since I hate the taste of Coke. I am a die-hard Pepsi drinker.

Also, growing up we were standing in line, out on the East Coast they refer to it as standing on line. I guess there is an imaginary line that we are all standing on.

Noslonna

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 12:49 pm Click here to edit this post

Some of the many expressions I hear my kids use:

nasty for anything bad
sweet for anything good (sort of like "cool")
burn instead of "ouch"
loser--loner--major weeny: a chant used for an insult.
worm: a term of endearment

Noslonna

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 01:00 pm Click here to edit this post

Weird expressions members of my weird family use:

better-getta-sweater-on means its going to rain. Have to run the words all together like they are one word.

shut the doors, they're coming in the windows means the kids need to go outside and play.

dippy eggies, sangies softboiled eggs, sandwiches... I don't know if those are that weird but I first heard them from my hubby and I think it sounds funny for a grown man to use them as if they were perfectly normal words.

looks like 40 miles of bad road if someone is in a bad mood.

she's blowin' means it's a windy day.

fort and back means back and forth. My uncle says that. He claims it is from the prairies. I think it is weird.

oofda! usually an expression of surprise or disgust but is a multi-purpose word.

fieda! means something like "yuck" or "shame on you."

larsamon! something wives say to their husbands when they are annoying.

We also say "pop" for all soft drinks.

In Nova Scotia they say "greasy road" instead of slippery road. (Flint told me that one)

Nancy091158

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 01:13 pm Click here to edit this post

LOl..since I am going to London in April any slang i should know of over there? I know Pants are underpants..trousers are Pants..a vest is an undershirt and a waistcoast is a vest(english to us translations)

Norwican

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 01:41 pm Click here to edit this post

This one is heard in our office alot:
F*ck the F*cking F*ckers!

Maybe I should have entered this in the F-Word Game

Max

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 01:48 pm Click here to edit this post

Nancy,
Loo = bathroom
Lift = elevator
Underground or tube = subway
biscuits = cookies or crackers (I think it's interchangeable)

I'm sure there are more, but these come to mind immediately.

Schoolmarm

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 01:52 pm Click here to edit this post

Uffda is a Norwegian expression for anything from "oh, phooey" to "oh, sh*t", If you want to swear, you say Uffda fida! (or just Fi).

I'm still trying to get used to the way Western Pennsylvanians (especially Pittsburghers) say yinz (or youens)....y'all is certainly more pleasant.

They also "rid the house" when they clean.