You Know That Saying ... (T/F?)

[homoe]

Originally Posted by Kätzchen

Oh, that is very interesting!!! I've never heard this before. Is it a saying that is somehow regional by design??? I think it's a terribly cute way to say your feet are tired!!!

Miss Katz:

According to what I found this is an old expression, typically associated with the South and especially concentrated around the Appalachian Mountain chain. Older usage didn't connote smelly or dirty feet, just sore feet.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by homoe

Miss Katz:

According to what I found this is an old expression, typically associated with the South and especially concentrated around the Appalachian Mountain chain. Older usage didn't connote smelly or dirty feet, just sore feet.

okay, homoe, I think I understand now what you were talking about!

You know, late last night, it came to me that my late grandmother always wore hush puppy shoes for her role at work as an head dietician. Back in the day, I'd say it was early 1960s, no shoe retailer made shoes for women to wear that felt comfortable for women....especially women who were on their feet all day long. Even early models of nursing shoes were not comfortable at all...because it was nearly 1973 before my mother could find a comfortable shoes to wear. Both my mother and her mother worked long hours on their feet in both their roles as an dietician and nurse. So, even I couldn't find shoes comfortable enough to wear in all the years I worked in my former career, but I could never ever find a pair of hush puppies that would fit my feet. I'm tall, my feet are sort of long, but not too wide... I'm a "B" or "C" width. Mom and grandmother had fairly little feet, which worked perfectly for them to buy a pair or three of hush puppies.

Thanks for jogging my memory, homoe

[Kätzchen]

.....A Bone of Contention.....

Using this phrase of expression generally means that there is an ongoing issue of disagreement which is not easily solved or, worst case scenario, is never solved.

[homoe]

"In Short Order".................



To take care of a task very quickly.

[homoe]

"Hot Under The Collar".................



To be upset over some matter! Someone or something has made you mad!

[homoe]

"Not For All the Tea In China"..............



Not at any price. Never!

[homoe]

"Be Still My Heart"...............



An exclamation that something is too exciting or overwhelming for one to bear; literally, that it is causing one's heart to beat too fast.

In modern usage, it is almost always used sarcastically to imply that something is actually mundane, uninteresting, or unappealing.