Unusual sayings/phrases

[aefibird]

Are there unusual sayings or phrases local to where you live?

 

Here's one from the Barnsley area of England:

 

Being like "a frog in a sock".

 

Usually used in the context of sport or physical activity, it means that you are performing substandard or not as good as you usually are.

 

i.e. if I was playing pool and was playing like a frog in a sock I'd be playing very very badly...

[foreveryoung001]

In Northern Michigan, we refer to bad drivers as "fudgies". We are a tourist area and a lot of people come here to buy fudge from the shops on Mackinac Island. They are referred to as fudgies, and that usually relates to the fact that they really don't know how to drive that well.

 

A little closer to home. A nuclear Power plant was recently decomissioned about 50 miles away. A certain piece of euqipment had to be shipped to the strorage facility by way of my little town. They trucked it over here, and then placed it on the railroad car here. It took them about 4 days to lift this huge thing onto the car. In the papers, the nuclear regulatory people kept referring to it as a "Nuclear Vessel". So we began to blame things on the radiation from the nuclear vessel. Instead of gremlins or ghosts, are bumps-in-the-night are caused by the "Mighty Nuclear Vessel"

[cvkid]

I live in a city called Lexington,it's in Central Kentucky.If you drive for forty-five minutes in any direction and you'll end up in some crazy hickvilles.There's tons of weird phrases out there,one I heard the other day was "ain't never heard the beat of that".It means I don't know what your talking about.I had never heard of that one before.