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PROVERB
THE FOOT ON THE CRADLE AND THE HAND ON THE DISTAFF IS THE SIGN OF A
GOOD HOUSEWIFE.
Submitter comment: SPANISH SAYING
Where learned: MACKENZIE HIGH SCHOOL
Keyword(s): MOTHERHOOD ; SPINNING WHEEL ; SYMBOLS ; WORK, INDUSTRY
Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-12-1965
TICK, TACK, TOE
AND AROUND WE GO
AND WHERE WE STOP
NOBOBY KNOWS.
THE PERSON CLOSES HIS EYES AS HE RECITES THIS VERSE.
HE CIRCLES THE CHART WITH A POINTER AND WHERE THE
VERSE ENDS, HE POINTS TO THE PLACE WHERE HE STOPS.
AS MANY POINTS HE POINTS TO, THAT'S THE AMOUNT HE
GETS. AT THE END OF THE GAME, THE PERSON WITH THE
MOST POINTS WINS.
Submitter comment: I USED TO PLAY THIS WHEN I WAS SMALL, IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): SEE NUMBERED, WHEEL-CHART, DRAWN ON 5 X 8 CARD.
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Pastime C500.750 |
Date learned: 11-28-1967
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Proverbial Comparison
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
...as shiny as a nigger's heel.
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James Callow comment:
The word as is underlined.
Dup of WPP
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; Mattingly, Frances A ; TRAVERSE CITY ; 240 WASHINGTON ST
Keyword(s): Foot ; Heel ; Offensive ; RACISM ; Racist ; SIMILE
Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison Filter - Mature Content |
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Proverbial Comparison
Historical record from James Callow Folklore Archive.
Shiny as a nigger's heel.
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James Callow comment:
Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects
Keyword(s): Foot ; Heel ; Offensive ; RACISM ; Racist ; SIMILE
Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Blason Populaire PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison Filter - Mature Content |
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Toast
Here's to the world as round as a wheel
That all must feel,
If this life were a thing that you could buy,
The Jews would all live while the Irish would die.
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Where learned: HOME ; Carson, Lawrence
Keyword(s): Buy ; DRINKING ; ETHNIC ; Irish ; Jewish ; LIFE ; MONEY ; Purchase ; Social ; Stereotype ; TOAST ; Wheel
Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech SPEECH -- Formula |
Proverb
The Squeaky Wheel:
the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the grease.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; REDFORD TOWNSHIP ; Funk, Patricia Lynn
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Compliance ; Grease ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; Rebel ; Squeak ; VERSE ; Wheel
Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
The squeaking wheel gets greased.
Submitter comment:
Heard this often as a child, also, when living in Missouri and Ohio.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [V800] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; ATTENTION ; Grease ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; Squeak ; VERSE ; Wheel
Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Language
Wheel is another name for bicycle
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Where learned: Harwell, H Q
Keyword(s): Bicycle ; Language ; SLANG ; Vocabulary ; Wheel
Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Common Word |
HIGH HEELS WORN BY A PREGNANT WOMAN WILL BRING A
CROSS-EYED CHILD.
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Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; Lipford, Allena
Keyword(s): BELIEF ; Cross-eyes ; High Heels ; PREGNANCY ; SHOES
James Callow Keyword(s): SHOES
Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Birth BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 10-13-1973