1. "Bathe and shave." Instead of saying, "Go take a bath" or "I need to bathe," my mother would always say both of them--something like, "Make sure you bathe and shave" or "I'm going to bathe and shave and then we can go."
2. "Spit bath" and "spit curls." A spit bath, according to the dictionary, is a quick bath where you don't wash your hair and it takes about five minutes. Mom sometimes used the expression like this but sometimes it implied that you should (as in an earlier post) "wash up and far as possible and down as far as possible" and it really wasn't a bath at all. The spit curls were little curls around your face that you would curl the night before with a little water and hold the curl in place with a bobby pin until it dried.
3. "How 'bout them apples?" The Urban Dictionary says this means, "What do you think about that?"
4. "Hotter than Halifax!" Mom had a lot of descriptive expressions and this was regarding the weather. This one saw a lot of use because we live in a hot climate.
5. "Scrubbed with gasoline." The best example of the use of this expression is this. A friend of mine had a passel of little children and they were all extremely clean, with hair slicked down firmly with hair goo, and wearing nice clothing and shoes. To this my mother would have said, "They look like they've all been scrubbed with gasoline!"
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I've heard some of these but not Scrubbed with gasoline. That just sounds painful!
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