Words and Sayings Unique to Your Country/Culture

[Friday]

Double Toasted Everything Bagle with herb and garlic cream cheese - Something that can make a Canadian start drooling

Who DOESNT that make start drooling?!? Mmmmmm. So good. Dammit. NOW I wanna bagel!

 

[PlainJane]

Add some smoked salmon, perfection.

 

[Freddyt]

We have two seasons here, winter and construction...

 

[Dynamic]

It's a free for all means fend for yourself in the kitchen and eat whatever you want but clean up your mess.

 

[KayW]

Great thread, feel like I'm learning new languages.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater - keep what s good.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face - it'll hurt you more than anyone else.
Were you born in a barn? - shut the door.
f*ck that for a bunch o sundays - Im not doing that.
She's having kittens - she's panicking.
Her heads up her arse - not wanting to see.
Away with the pixies - not in reality or daydreaming.
Mad as a box of frogs or two pence short of a pound or got a screw missing - something's not quite right mentally

 

[Lionheart]

"If I don't see you in the future, I'll see you in the pasture" means goodbye
"I gotta piss like a Russian racehorse," well it means I really need to urinate, and if said by a male, ...well I think you can figure out the horse reference.
"Their lights are on, but nobody's home". It means the person is not the "sharpest tool in the shed" Means dumb or slow to comprehend. It is definitely not a compliment.
"I need to go scarf down (eat) some grub (food)." Means I need to go eat some food.
I am sure I will remember more if I try for a while.

 

[user27357]

daughter just moved to a faraway land where even though they are still in the US they call any casserole a “hot dish” and if you order chop suey you wont get chinese food.
Without a doubt my favorite slang found in the us is the midwestern question statement, as in: “so, ya going fishin there?” if you see someone with rod in hand. “so, you reading something on your phone there?” They are just being nice bless their hearts.

 

[user27357]

i find it near to impossible to resist turning slang that would be considered crude into an innocuous statement when uttered in the right circumstances.
If i see someone putting a picture up i just have to ask them “hows it hanging?”

 

[Friday]

If i see someone putting a picture up i just have to ask them “hows it hanging?”

This will date me…

“Short, shrivelled, & slightly to the left.”

Ahhhhh. Jim Carey.

 

[user27357]

watching a documentary about the space shuttle i was reminded of the time NASA sent up a senator, Jake Garn of Utah. It isnt a local slang but a NASA slang used to describe a level of space sickness, total debilitation being referred to as a 1 on the Garn scale.
locally, as in “ at my high school” blowing chips was the popular term for evacuation, but lawn yodelling and barking at your shoes was also in use.
Anyone?

 

[Freddyt]

We have a lot of sayings for cold here....... (wonder why?)

-Colder than a witches boobs in January.
-Cold enough to freeze the gonads off a brass monkey
- What are you gonna do when winter gets here? (usually when its unseasonably cold)
-But it's a dry cold....(because 76% RH at -22 C is about 8% RH when you warm that air to 21C)

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

A few I remember.....
Any plastic bags caught in tree branches were referred to as 'witches knickers' as in ripped off from flying the broom too low.
Short skirts were called 'greyhound skirts' as in 'one inch from the hair(hare)'
Sewing a flared hem or large item would always be remarked upon as 'once around this is twice around a gas tank'
'Yampy' means losing the plot or playing the fool
'Riffy' means dirty
'Cut' is a canal
'Bit black over Bills mothers' means there's a storm coming in