Mariposa Fire....hows Stephen doing??

[FireFighterZero]

Hmmm.....learned a new word this evening.

 

[Burnham]

 

[stig]

House is good for that.
Improved my vocabulary no end.

 

[Bodean]

I watched a white hat call in a water drop from a helicopter...they nailed him. I hid behind boulders as the water came down the hill.

I've heard the term...not in my wheelhouse....well the other day a client told me it wasn't "in her wheelwell"

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[Burnham]

She doesn't quite get the reference. Not uncommon among the upper classes, when the reference is from working class situations.

 

[Mick!]

I love it when people get sayings mixed up or wrong.

We have a saying in the U.K. "Put the kibosh" on something, meaning to put a sudden halt to something, a deal or similar.

My wife used to say "put the kite wash"


An old employee once said to me that an someone had "roasted his pigeons"

It took me a couple of minutes to work out that he'd mixed up "pigeons coming home to roost" and "his goose is cooked"

 

[Cobleskill]

We say kibosh in the US as well. A lot of people say in like flint-as opposed to in like Flynn.

 

[Mick!]

Maybe confusion with the James Coburn character.

 

[Mick!]

Another one my wife said was "I'm on tender hooks" rather than Tenterhooks.


(That particular argument got a bit heated)

 

[MasterBlaster]

Never heard that phrase before.

 

[Mick!]

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/on-tenterhooks.html


Must be a this side of the pond thing.

 

[stig]

I know it, and I sure didn't learn my English this side of the pond.

 

[FireFighterZero]

All I know is that it's gonna be hotter than two rats f'ing in a tube sock today.

 

[pantheraba]

Tenter hooks and tube socks!!! Never heard of either one but both are great.

 

[MasterBlaster]

We say "on pins and needles."

 

[stig]

Knew that one, too.
Come to think of it, I do read a lot of British litterature, that is most likely where I picked it up.

 

[Bermy]

We were at traffic management class the other day...long story...in among the paperwork is an official amendment to a particular law or statute of something...the funny thing to us was the guy who signed it, his last name was HOEY (hoo-eee)

We thought it was funny, a law being signed by a guy named Hoey (read 'what a load of hoey') but it fell completely splat flat with the Australians!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Ha.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I knew a guy named Hoey once. Richard Hoey, little guy ex San Francisco cop and crane style wu shu master that carried a gun.

 

[Burnham]

All those phrases or sayings are common enough here that I'm familiar with, and use, them all.

But like Stig, I may be a bit above average on the "well spoken" scale .