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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour
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My dad: "It's as cold as a witch's t*t in the Klondike." Actually, I think this is from my father's paternal grandmother. She was notorious for such sayings. Out of curiosity, I just googled this and apparently, some local New Jersey historian speculated on it at Origins of Cold as Balls and Cold as a Witch's Teet - Mr. Local History Project Everyone in my family lived in western NJ or right across the river in PA. If I had had children, they would know this, too.
B-i-l: "It's as cold as at 3 am at Kharkiv train station." Kharkiv train station is in Ukraine. Not sure of the exact origin. |
My dad's variation of the quote was always "It's colder than a witch's t1t wearing an iron bra". I did a little research and come up with a version utilizing a "brass bra" but the message is the same. lol
Not about weather, but another phrase my dad always used when he was annoyed with so many phone calls, he'd answer the phone with "Grand Central Station". lol
My dad was notorious for using phrases like that that you'd either scratch your head if they were commonplace and old, or if he just made them up as he went along haha.
Mom always said "It's hotter than blue blazes".
Alright, enough sayings from me for one day. Just thought I'd share a little from my part of the world :P I don't know where my family picked up the phrases if they aren't universal ones. My parents grew up in Indiana and Illinois respectively, but their family lived in Kentucky. It may not seem like there would be a major cultural change a state above Kentucky.. but let me tell you -- it's another world. lol. I actually grew up in an area of Kentucky where 20minutes by car the accent changed radically, so did the timezone. A place where you "knowed the 'maters would freeze, and you done had needed them cause you were fixin to start dinner(lunch) and supper(last meal of the day) was gon' be late." -- to this day saying and using improper participles/verb tenses is an issue for me. Things like "I should have went", or "I had saw" sounds so natural to my ears. It takes a lot to correct the mistakes you pick up from your community! Using the wrong form of irregular past tense verbs are luckily not a habit I picked up. That one does drive me mad sometimes.
It's always a fun thing to explain to people at parties. I have a rather odd accent because it's a mixture of my parents and my environment.