Take up dinner means we dish up the food from the stove or oven and put it in the serving dishes.
" Take up the green beans and I'll take up the potatoes. "
" Take up the green beans and I'll take up the potatoes. "
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Local Idiomatic Expressions - Know Any? Stump Us!
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She pitched herself a hissy fit and threw herself into it. (She had a major temper tantrum)
I suspicioned that might be the case. (I suspected something)
Up the creek without a paddle. (You're fine if you're up the creek. If you're down the creek, you might be headed over the falls.)
You skeert me! (Scared)
All hat, no spurs (A phony person, pretentious, a big talker)
Watch up to? (What are yo doing?)
Well, I never! (I don't believe it.)
She has a bun in the oven. (She's pregnant.)
Going window-shopping. (Looking through store windows but not buying anything.)
Crick (Creek)
Blue norther (a strong cold front preceded by bluish clouds)
Sainny (Santa)
Hotter than a firecracker. (Really angry.)
Fine as frog's hair split three ways. (Feeling mighty fine.)
Like a bump on a log (useless)
In high cotton (doing very well financially.)
High-falutin' (putting on airs.)
Take and... (intend as in "I'm going to take and go to the store in a while.")
Caincha (Can't you?)
Doncha (Don't you?)
Bless your heart. (Sarcastic comment.)
If I had my druthers. (If I had my choice.)
Lord willin' and the creek don't rise. (Unless something out of my control happens.)
Full as a tick (Having eaten way too much.)
I suspicioned that might be the case. (I suspected something)
Up the creek without a paddle. (You're fine if you're up the creek. If you're down the creek, you might be headed over the falls.)
You skeert me! (Scared)
All hat, no spurs (A phony person, pretentious, a big talker)
Watch up to? (What are yo doing?)
Well, I never! (I don't believe it.)
She has a bun in the oven. (She's pregnant.)
Going window-shopping. (Looking through store windows but not buying anything.)
Crick (Creek)
Blue norther (a strong cold front preceded by bluish clouds)
Sainny (Santa)
Hotter than a firecracker. (Really angry.)
Fine as frog's hair split three ways. (Feeling mighty fine.)
Like a bump on a log (useless)
In high cotton (doing very well financially.)
High-falutin' (putting on airs.)
Take and... (intend as in "I'm going to take and go to the store in a while.")
Caincha (Can't you?)
Doncha (Don't you?)
Bless your heart. (Sarcastic comment.)
If I had my druthers. (If I had my choice.)
Lord willin' and the creek don't rise. (Unless something out of my control happens.)
Full as a tick (Having eaten way too much.)
Common in Colorado, too. Regarding window shopping, I've always considered it extremely kind of jewelry stores to put all those pretty stones out where we can enjoy them. Practically a museum in the shopping mall. Especially in October, when they're displaying opals.
You mean that's not how it's pronounced?
Common in Colorado, too, but I always thought it meant "motionless."
Common in Colorado, too.
Common in Colorado, too.
Margret
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Huh, is that Southern? Like I said, I know a guy who says that, he doesn't sound Southern though. I'll have to ask him if he has any Southern family history, lol.
I was born in the north but live in the south but have heard "gitch" all over the places I lived at (I bounced around the country some) and realized it meant "get". My wife says "y'all" lots of times when she is not paying attention to how she is speaking. My mom has used the saying (sorry for the rudeness) "shit and git" to tell us kids to hurry up and finish what we were doing. I tell my son "Makes a great door but terrible window" when he stands in front of the tv.
When I was a kid we used to say, "You're a pane (pain) but I can't see through you." when one of us stood in front of the t.v.
