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COMMON PHRASE
TAKES TO IT LIKE A DUCK TO WATER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): ADAPTABILITY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
THAT WENT OVER LIKE A HOT POTATOE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
Keyword(s): POTATO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
THAT WENT OVER LIKE A LEAD BALLOON.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-21-1970
HUMOR
THAT WENT OVER LIKE A LEAD BALLOON.
Where learned: KANSAS ; WICHITA
Keyword(s): IRONY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WITTY SAYING: THAT WENT OVER LIKE . . .
THAT WENT OVER LIKE A PREGNANT NUN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 08-05-1968
HUMOR
THAT WENT OVER LIKE A PREGNANT POLE VAULTER.
Where learned: KANSAS ; WICHITA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
THAT WENT OVER LIKE A RUBBER CRUTCH IN A POLIO WARD.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PEABODY COLLEGE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-27-1970
HUMOR
THAT'S AS FUNNY AS A PAY TOILET IN A DIARRHEA WARD.
Where learned: KANSAS ; WICHITA
Keyword(s): BLACK HUMOR
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WITTY SAYING--THAT'S GOT AS MUCH CHANCE AS . . .
THAT'S GOT AS MUCH CHANCE AS A SNOWBALL IN HELL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
Keyword(s): IMPOSSIBILITY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 08-05-1968
PROVERB
THAT'S MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.
Where learned: VIRGINIA ; NORTH GARDEN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
THEY WERE SO EXCITED THEY WERE BOUNCING AROUND LIKE TWO
BB'S IN A BOXCAR.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
PROVERB: DOGS
AS THICK AS HAIR ON A DOG'S BACK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; FRANKLIN
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
FOLK SAYING
AS THICK AS THE TAR ON THE BOTTOM OF A RAIN BARREL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERB
A THIEF KNOWS A THIEF AS A WOLF KNOWS A WOLF.
Submitter comment: THIS IS SELF-EXPLANATORY.
Where learned: NASHVILLE ; TENNESSEE, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 05-09-1972
FOLK SAYING
TIGHT AS A TICK.
Submitter comment: APPLIED TO DRUNKEN MAN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
TIGHT
TIGHT AS A TICK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; PRIMM SPRINGS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 08-06-1968
PRETTY TIGHT
TIGHT AS DICK'S HATBAND.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 07-03-1970
FOLK SAYING
TIGHT AS THE BARK ON A TREE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; RED BOILING SPRINGS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 03-26-1972
NOT GIVEN
TIGHTER THAN A CAT'S ASS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
TIGHTER THAN DICK'S HATBAND.
Submitter comment:
SAID BY MR. FRED MAGGART OF LEBANON, TENNESSEE IN FALL 1970
TO DESCRIBE THE TIGHT MONEY SITUATION. MR. MAGGART WAS
PRESIDENT OF THE LEBANON BANK, LEBANON, TENNESSEE. HE DID
NOT KNOW ANYMORE ABOUT THE EXPRESSION EXCEPT HE HAD HEARD
AND USED IT ALL HIS LIFE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; LEBANON
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 09-00-1970