Are there any funny or odd sayings your husband says that he got from his family that you hadn't heard before or just think odd?

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I'll start.

My dh says "the old bear is home" when he comes home. I had never heard it before and my oldest when little would always say "No BEAR is home?"

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My dh doesn't but I think he thinks me and my kids --and my neighbor say funny things--we say et as in Do you want something to eat? No we already et. He thinks that is aweful. I know there is so much more because the kids daddys family has really cute sayings but for the life of me I can't think. Lack of sleep from staying up for the eclipse!

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Well- Dh's parents were born and raised in Pittsburgh- so they have a lot of the Pittsburghese (I have just a little bit of it- like I say pop instead of soda pop, chipped ham- instead of chipped chop ham and a few other things)- so DH has a lot of it. One thing he says that drives me nuts is "let's rid up the house"- meaning let's clean the house, there is also "warsh" or "warsher"- which is wash or washer. The one word he says that drives me absolutley insane is when he says the word similar- he pronounces it simUlar- which is not how I think it should be pronounced. There are a few other things- but those are the only few I can think of.

Oh- younz- that is Pittsburgh's equivilent to y'all. That word drives me nuts!

I have lived in Virginia all my life and half of my family is from North Carolina, hence we are southern and say things differently than other places. But the glaring difference is so obvious with DH's family. They live in southern New Hampshire but grew up in Lowell, Mass (fil came there from Greece in 1956 at the age of 9) and they say some weird things. I always heard that when you refer to being pregnant, you were pregnant with whatever the child's name is. They say they were pregnant for blah blah. Also when you ask anyone around here what time their appointment is they say I have to be there at 2 o'clock, up there they have to be there for 2. Dh and I have known each other for 17 years and I still cringe when someone in his family says "wicked pissa", as in "this winta has been a wicked pissa" If you really want to get the flavor of their language try listening to the comedian Bob Marley, he's from Maine.

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DH always says "you can't get blood from a stone." I love that one.

My dad had a ton of them. (He was from North Dakota.) The two most memorable:

"He looks like death eatin' a soda cracker!" - Someone who is looking tired or sick (like my brother when he would be hungover.)

"It's raining out like a cow peeing on a flat rock." - Self-explanatory.

Ahh, Daddy, I miss you. He was a character, for sure.

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My Grampa always used to say that! I haven't heard that in a long time!

DH & his family, they have some good ones!

"She has the mothering instincts of an old sow", this was from his Gramma, referring to his Mom!

"You don't have the manners God gave a goose!", just a general comment on someone's manners or being rude.

The only other one I can think of that I've heard dh use is when referring to something gawdy or really noticable is "that sticks out like a diamond in a goat's butt!"

I've lived in NH my whole life pretty much, and I do say "wicked" all the time, but I don't drop the R's like "this winta has been a wicked pissa." I never said I was pregnant "for" my baby, but I do say "for 2 o'clock" sometimes. Also, I didn't realize this was strange, but I will see the time as 2:45 and say "it's a quarter of three." Shopping carts are sometimes called "wagons" only I pretty much stopped saying that the first time DH made fun of me for it. Also, is "fix supper" (as opposed to "cook dinner") a New England thing, too?

DH is from western NY and his family uses "groady" for dirty and "bushel" for laundry basket. He still says those, but he has converted to NH-ese and will now say "soda" instead of "pop", and he says "wicked" sometimes now, too.

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Actually I fix supper every night. In the south, breakfast is breakfast, lunch is dinner and dinner is supper. For instance when you refer to Sunday Dinner, you refer to the meal you eat upon returning from church, which is usually a big thing and Sunday supper is usually very light (traditionally, I should say, many don't do this any more). I've found huge differences regionally between my family and DH's in New Hampshire but the biggest thing is volume. It's been my experience that the people up there are louder than here, and it tends to be the women, my sil is your typical loud, brash New England woman. People down here tend to be a little more reserved unless they've been drinking, lol My inlaw's don't drink soda, they drink tonic and I've always thought of "groady" as a valleygirl word, as in "groady to the max!" It's really funny the differences, this has been entertaining

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