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PROVERBIAL PHRASE
TO PUT A BEE IN YOUR BONNET.
Submitter comment:
IT MEANS TO TELL A BIT OF GOSSIP, FOR EXAMPLE:
"LET ME PUT A BEE IN YOUR BONNET."
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
PROVERB
PRETTY IS AS PRETTY DOES.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
PROVERB
A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
Keyword(s): THRIFT FRUGALITY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERB
ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
PROVERB
NOTHING IS CERTAIN BUT DEATH AND TAXES.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
AS NERVOUS AS A CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
PROVERB
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
PROVERB
A MISS IS AS GOOD AS A MILE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERB
MEDICINE CURES THE MAN WHO IS FATED NOT TO DIE.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT SAYS THIS WAS TOLD TO HER BY A YOUNG
PEDIATRICIAN IN OWENSBORO, WHO CLAIMS THIS IS AN
OLD CHINESE PROVERB.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
PROVERB
MANY HANDS MAKE THE WORK LIGHT.
Submitter comment:
WITH MANY PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER, THE WORK ISN'T AS HARD
ON EACH ONE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
Keyword(s): COOPERATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
COMPARISON
MAD AS A HATTER.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
Keyword(s): ANGER
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
PROVERB
LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
Keyword(s): ELLIPSIS
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
LIVE AND LEARN.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
NOT GIVEN
LIKE AN OLD SORE TAIL CAT.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
PROVERBIAL COMPARISON
I'M SO TIRED, I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN IRONING ALL DAY
WITH A COLD IRON.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
TRADITIONAL SAYING AT PARTING
I'LL BE SEEING YOU--GOD WILLING AND THE CREEK DON'T RISE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
PROVERB
IGNORANCE IS BLISS--IT IS FOLLY TO BE WISE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-00-1972
PROVERB
IF YOU AIM AT NOTHING, YOU WILL HIT THE BULL'S EYE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-00-1972
NOT GIVEN
IF I HAD A BRAIN AND YOU'D PUT IT IN A BIRD, IT WOULD
FLY BACKWARDS.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: 04-00-1972
PROVERB
I'D RATHER WEAR OUT THAN RUST OUT.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; OWENSBORO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 03-00-1972