Colloquialisms [promises to be Unutterably Silly] - Page 17

slayda · 07-03-2008, 10:47 AM

How about

"dog eared" - condition a book gets into when many of its pages have had corners turned down
and "Dog leg" - when you take a short cut across a corner instead of going along the other two sides of a triangle

slayda · 07-03-2008, 11:19 AM

Seeing RickyMaveeta's new avatar, reminded me of a local Colloquialism. We have had so many armadillos come into the Alabama area that it is common to see them killed on the roads.

So do you know what we call armadillos in the South US? " 'Possum on the half shell."

RickyMaveety · 07-03-2008, 11:27 AM

Or ... "as sick as a dog."

I don't know where that came from ... I mean, don't all mammals get sick more or less to the same degree??

montsnmags · 07-03-2008, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slayda

Didn't he mean that they "bred" a strain of unafraid sheep?

We prefer to say "bread", and thus often use as a euphemistic colloquialism for the activity, "lamb roll".

If an Aussie asks you if you want a lamb roll, think twice.

Cheers,
Marc (hey, how did this become about Aussies? It's the Kiwis that are into the lamb-lovin'!)

RWood · 07-03-2008, 08:43 PM

Would that then be an Oz-matic?

montsnmags · 07-03-2008, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by RWood

Would that then be an Oz-matic?

Sure, why not. Of course, if we continue down this path of -matics, it will eventually be "Grease Lightning", and we surely don't want to go there (TMI, as they say).

Cheers,
Marc (I tell you, it's the Kiwis with the sheep!

)

GeoffC · 07-04-2008, 11:04 AM

mmmmm

gone to the dogs ?

hey vr, when do you get your share of the 8 billion dollars ?

RickyMaveety · 07-04-2008, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

We prefer to say "bread", and thus often use as a euphemistic colloquialism for the activity, "lamb roll".

If an Aussie asks you if you want a lamb roll, think twice.

Cheers,
Marc (hey, how did this become about Aussies? It's the Kiwis that are into the lamb-lovin'!)

Because most people (outside of those in Australia and New Zealand) have this absurd idea that the two countries are really (really) close together and that their people are culturally sort of interchangeable.

Yeah .... I know neither statement is true, but a lot of folks out there are geographically ignorant. (A talk-show host here ... Jay Leno does a bit called "Jay-Walking" from time to time, where he quizzes them on things you would think most people would know. Then, he does an in-studio bit called "Jay-Walk Allstars."

Those people (and some of them are TEACHERS in this country) couldn't pick out China on a map of the world ... and one thought that Antarctica was Australia.

montsnmags · 07-04-2008, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

...

Those people (and some of them are TEACHERS in this country) couldn't pick out China on a map of the world ... and one thought that Antarctica was Australia.

Well, to try my damnedest to stretch myself to a diplomatic fairness no matter how far beyond any reasonable degree of rationality, Antarctica once was Australia, or vice-versa but I suspect that the person wasn't old enough to have been around then.

Cheers,
Marc (East Gondwana Dreaming)

RickyMaveety · 07-04-2008, 10:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Well, to try my damnedest to stretch myself to a diplomatic fairness no matter how far beyond any reasonable degree of rationality, Antarctica once was Australia, or vice-versa but I suspect that the person wasn't old enough to have been around then.

Cheers,
Marc (East Gondwana Dreaming)

Oh, you are just plain too nice. Are you SURE you aren't Canadian??

montsnmags · 07-04-2008, 10:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Oh, you are just plain too nice. Are you SURE you aren't Canadian??

I don't think so, eh?

Cheers,
Marc

Nate the great · 07-04-2008, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slayda

How about

"dog eared" - condition a book gets into when many of its pages have had corners turned down
and "Dog leg" - when you take a short cut across a corner instead of going along the other two sides of a triangle

I think you are misusing dogleg.

Verb

to dogleg (third-person singular simple present doglegs, present participle doglegging, simple past and past participle doglegged)

1. (intransitive) To bend in the shape of the hind leg of a dog.

from:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogleg...eg&redirect=no

RickyMaveety · 07-04-2008, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nate the great

I think you are misusing dogleg.

Verb

to dogleg (third-person singular simple present doglegs, present participle doglegging, simple past and past participle doglegged)

1. (intransitive) To bend in the shape of the hind leg of a dog.

from:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogleg...eg&redirect=no

I thought that sounded wrong to me too. When I use the term "dogleg" to describe walking somewhere, it means the opposite .... that I took sort of the long way around ... as in "I took the dogleg route" .... the exact opposite of a short cut.

zelda_pinwheel · 07-05-2008, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I don't think so, eh?

Cheers,
Marc

eh ?

slayda · 07-08-2008, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I thought that sounded wrong to me too. When I use the term "dogleg" to describe walking somewhere, it means the opposite .... that I took sort of the long way around ... as in "I took the dogleg route" .... the exact opposite of a short cut.

Well, I'm just an ass, stuffed with straw who can't even keep my tail on, so what - you want perfection?

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