Country folk around here used to say "I didn't go to do it!" meaning they didn't intend for something to happen.
I had friends who would say they had to make their groceries, which meant they were going to the grocery store.
If you dropped something, you wasted it.
The feeder road is the freeway access road, an expression unique to the Houston area.
A hissy fit is a major temper tantrum.
Yonder means "over there."
"Itch" used in place of "scratch" as in I itched my back against the corner of the door.
"Cain't hardly" as in unable to. I cain't hardly get around any more.
"Might oughta" is should.
Hightail it is to get away quickly.
To doctor something up is to improve it. It has nothing to do with medicine. That soup was bland until I doctored it up.
I had friends who would say they had to make their groceries, which meant they were going to the grocery store.
If you dropped something, you wasted it.
The feeder road is the freeway access road, an expression unique to the Houston area.
A hissy fit is a major temper tantrum.
Yonder means "over there."
"Itch" used in place of "scratch" as in I itched my back against the corner of the door.
"Cain't hardly" as in unable to. I cain't hardly get around any more.
"Might oughta" is should.
Hightail it is to get away quickly.
To doctor something up is to improve it. It has nothing to do with medicine. That soup was bland until I doctored it up.