[An aside regarding my sox: my dress had red polka dots that you cannot really see in this faded photograph. No real excuse for the white shoes but I'm sure it was after Easter!]
1. "Hobnobbing with the landed gentry." This is evidently a well-known phrase because I found many hits on the Internet when I Googled it but I do not know its source other than my mother always said it.
2. "I'm just sick abed on two chairs," she'd say. This phrase was used when she or someone else was sick, either troubled (as in "I'm just sick about that!") or actually physically ill. It conjures the image of someone lying on top of two pushed-together dining chairs.
3. "Give it a lick and a promise." This means to clean something quickly and not carefully, according to the Internet and that is exactly how Mom used it.
4. "Slip on a banana peel and go." This was used when you didn't have much time to get ready to go somewhere.
5. "Wash up as far as possible and down as far as possible." This expression was used when you didn't have time to adequately clean up to go somewhere.
2 comments:
These give me a chuckle. And by the way- you were stylin'!
I think it is wonderful you are recording some of these fun saying your mother use to say! They are so unique, and so her! I loved her saying ( I can't remember the exact words): "There is nothing as over as Christmas!" I think it is neat, when in conversation, you also use some of these fun sayings!
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