Edna-isms, Part Forty-one

1.  There were several commonly known idiomatic phrases Mom would use:

• "Don't take any wooden nickels."  This is a known idiomatic phrase meaning take care of yourself.  This was also a phrase that Mom say when someone was leaving.  
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• "Deaf as a post"--just what it sounds like.  
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• "Wild as a March hare," meaning . . . well, I never knew this . . . but a hare in breeding season, as in an excitable hare.  
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• "Not worth a plug nickel," means a coin with a hole in the middle and therefore valueless.  
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• "Put that in your pipe and smoke it!" That means:  "You do it and see how YOU like it." I always thought this was my mother's own expression.  Now I know it was not. 
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• "Fighting tooth and nail."  This means really fighting, either physically or verbally.

Happy July 24th

L and I were in the July 24th parade this morning! Happy July 24th everyone!

Edna-isms, Part Forty

My wedding dinner.

"Lochinvar."  This was what my mother called my husband back when he and I were first dating.  "How is Lochinvar?"  "When is Lochinvar coming?"  It was a reference to an epic poem by Sir Walter Scott.  Evidently my grandmother (my mother's mother) used to quote from the poem.  Here is the poem's first stanza:

O young Lochinvar is come out of the west,
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best;
And save his good broadsword he weapons had none,
He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone.
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.