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Listening to Rural Midwestern Idioms/Folk Sayings
Paperback
HumorGeneral ReferenceGeneral Nature
ISBN13: 9780930643348
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 1 2015
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Entertaining guide to sayings and expressions from an almost lost early rural culture. Helps explain some strange phraseology and other Midwestern talk. These sayings are colored with allusions from the past and touched with a bit of humor. Some may appear to be crude and crass, but they are authentic. Written by noted storyteller and observer of local folks.
Here is a sampling of these and many other midwestern folk sayings (idioms) in the following categories:
Appearance, such as being run of the mill she's no spring chicken
Behaviors and Dispositions, as happy as a cow in clover rougher than a cob
Marriage and Separation - she led him down the primrose path he's in the doghouse
Common Sense - he's talkin' through his hat few bricks short of a full load
Credibility - slippery as a greased pig there's a lot of frosting on that cake
Situations and Tasks - it was cut and dried before he came it was water the dam
Time, Distance and Weather - make hay while the sun shines goes to bed with the chickens
Value - not worth a hill of beans can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Competition - helpless as a pig on ice separate the wheat from the chaff
Money and Finance - that's just chicken feed the well has gone dry
Relationships - the pot calling the kettle black taken under her wing
Death and Dying - he kicked the bucket shouldn't buy green bananas
Communication and Language Skills - in one ear and out the other that's just hogwash
Kitchen, Household and Food - he's a meat and potatoes guy two pickles short of a quart
Sports - went to bat for him got a lot on the ball
You'll find no beating around the bush here. If you're ready to chew the fat and strike while the iron is hot, then this book's for you.
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