"Hold yer horses, I'll be ready in two shakes of a lambs tail and I ain't skeered of you neither just cuz ova mornin yur madder en a wet settin hen and ready to throw down on me..." the sad thing is, here in the south, we all use parts of that jumble...and alot more...everyday...and understand each other , lol!!!!
I would just like to know if anyone can explain these two sayings. It bugs me when people use a saying if they have no idea what it means. I ask EVERYONE that uses these and nobody has ever known the meanings behind them.
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1. Tongue in cheek: Comes from the practice of biting your tongue causing pain in an effort to suppress laughter or a smile. If you bite your tongue with your side teeth you have put your tongue in your cheek.
2. Spittin' Image: This phrase was originally "spit and image".
It is a reference to polishing something using spit, to the point where you can see you own reflection or image in it. Shoes and apples come to mind.
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1. Tongue in cheek: Comes from the practice of biting your tongue causing pain in an effort to suppress laughter or a smile. If you bite your tongue with your side teeth you have put your tongue in your cheek.
2. Spittin' Image: This phrase was originally "spit and image".
It is a reference to polishing something using spit, to the point where you can see you own reflection or image in it. Shoes and apples come to mind.
I recognize many of those. My mother would say, when she was exasperated with me as a child, "You're going to send me right to Milledgeville!". I had no idea then, but a big state Mental Institution is in Milledgeville, Ga. And she'd say, " What in the Sam Hill...???" Never figured out who or what Sam Hill was..except that her maiden name was Hill.