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SNIENEE
SNIENEE IS THE LEBANESE NAME FOR THE FIRST TOOTH THAT THE BABY GETS.
IT MEANS SWEET ONE WHICH REFERS TO THE FIRST TASTE OF ANYTHING
IS ALWAYS THE BEST.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; NORTH QUAD
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. BELIEF -- Maturity PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-24-1970
PROVERB
DEATH COMES IN THREE'S
Where learned: DETROIT ; TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 01-16-1970
POLISH BELIEF
GDY CHTLOP TRAWE KOSI, LADA BABA DESZCZ UPROSI.
WHEN A MAN CUTS HIS GRASS, THE WOMAN BEGS FOR RAIN.
Data entry tech comment:
Possible cross reference for spelling: Dybza, Helen
Updated by TRD
Where learned: RESIDENCE
Keyword(s): Grass ; HUSBAND ; Lawn ; POLISH ; PROVERB ; Rain ; RHYME ; Saying ; Wife
| Subject headings: | Custom PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
VERSE TO LIVE BY
IT'S NICE TO BE IMPORTANT, BUT IT'S MORE
IMPORTANT TO BE NICE
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; CAMPUS
Keyword(s): CHIASMUS ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-09-1971
SAYING
HURRAH FOR ME THE HELL WITH YOU
Submitter comment:
THIS SAYING WAS PASSED ON TO THE INFORMANT AS A COMMENT MADE BY HIS
GRANDFATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1977
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
IT IS BETTER TO KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND BE THOUGHT A FOOL, THAN
TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT.
Submitter comment:
I REMEMBER THIS SAYING ESPECIALLY WHEN I AM WITH PEOPLE, SOME
LIBERAL AND SOME CONSERVATIVE, AND THEY ARE DISCUSSING SOME ISSUE
LIKE RELIGION OR POLITICS. AT THIS TIME, IT IS BETTER TO BE QUIET
AND JUST LISTEN THAN TRY AND VOICE AN OPINION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TAYLOR
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 07-00-1970
SAYING
IF YOU CAN'T USE YOUR HEAD, YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR FEET.
Submitter comment:
THE MEANING OF THIS SAYING IS THAT IF YOU DO NOT THINK AND PLAN
AHEAD FIRST, YOU WILL END UP RE-TRACING YOUR STEPS, MAKING MORE WORK
FOR YOURSELF THAN WHAT YOU INITIALLY SET OUT TO ACCOMPLISH.
IT NEVER FAILS THAT THIS SAYING ALWAYS COMES TRUE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TAYLOR
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1967 ; 00-00-1935
BELIEF
A SAD BEGINNING IS A HAPPY ENDING.
Submitter comment:
MY MOTHER ALWAYS TOLD THIS TO ME WHEN THINGS STARTED OFF ON THE
WRONG FOOT.
CONTRAST
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TAYLOR
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1966
GERMAN SAYING
GUTES RAT IST TEUER.
Submitter comment: TRANSLATION: GOOD ADVICE IS EXPENSIVE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TAYLOR
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-00-1977 ; 00-00-1965
PROVERB
BETTER TO HAVE A WISE ENEMY,THAN A FOOLISH FRIEND
Submitter comment:
I REMEMBER HEARING THIS INFORMATION FROM MY GRANDMOTHER OF
IRISH DESCENT, MARION DOWNEY
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00001970S
PROVERB
IT IS WORSE TO DISTRUST A FRIEND THAN TO BE DECEIVED BY HIM.
Submitter comment: I REMEMBER HEARING THIS INFORMATION FROM MARION DOWNEY.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00001970S
PROVERB
IF YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NICE DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 00-00-1977
PROVERB
SING IN THE MORNING, CRY IN THE AFTERNOON.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS USUALLY SAID WHEN A CHILD GETS SO HAPPY, HE GETS
SILLY. IT IS A WARNING FOR HIM TO ACT HIS AGE.
SO THIS IS FUNCTIONAL FOLKLORE, A KIND OF CORRECTIVE. IT ALSO
CONTAINS ELLIPSIS AND CONTRAST.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-20-1977
PROVERB
GOSC W DOM, BOG W DOM, MEANING, A GUEST IN THE HOME
IS GOD IN THE HOME.
Submitter comment:
THIS PROVERB CAME ABOUT BECAUSE OF THE POLISH CUSTOM OF
HOSPITALITY TO ALL GUESTS.
IT ALSO CONTAINS MEDIAL ITERATION AND FINAL ITERATION AND, AT
LEAST IN THE POLISH, ELLIPSIS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-20-1977
POLISH PROVERB
STAROSC NIE RADOSC,
MEANING,
OLD AGE IS NOT JOYFUL.
Submitter comment:
STELLA KRZYZANOWSKI LEARNED THIS PROVERB FROM HER MOTHER, JULIA
WASIELEWSKI. THIS PROVERB IS USUALLY SAID IN AN OFF HAND WAY.
WHEN THE PERSON MAKES A GOOF THAT MAY RELATE TO SOMETHING AN
OLD PERSON MIGHT DO. (EXAMPLE, IF SOMEONE TRIES TO GET UP FROM
A CHAIR, BUT FALLS BACK, HE WOULD THEN SAY THIS PROVERB. IT IS
USUALLY MEANT TO EXPRESS A WAY OF LAUGHING AT YOURSELF. THE
GESTURE WHICH ACCOMPANIES THIS PROVERB IS A PALM WAVED
DOWNWARD GESTURE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Gesture PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-02-1977
PROVERB
TEN CO ZE SOBO NOSI NIKOGO NIE PROSI, MEANING, THOSE WHO BRING
WITH THEM DON'T HAVE TO BEG.
Submitter comment:
THIS POLISH PROVERB PROMOTES INDEPENDENCE. IT IS ALSO
HUMOROUS BECAUSE IT REFERS TO THE CARRYING OF FOOD WITH YOURSELF
SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BEG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 10-12-1977
NO SOONER SAID THAN DONE.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAYS THIS WHEN IN A SARCASTIC MOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
James Callow Keyword(s): ELLIPSIS
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Extra Corporal Means of Communication PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- V475 |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU, FOOL ME TWICE SHAME ON ME.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
James Callow Keyword(s): CONTRAST ; TRICKSTER
| Subject headings: | 686 Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually. 686 Seconds / Twice / Two PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 01-00-1979
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT SAID THIS WHEN MY BROTHER DID SOMETHING LIKE MY FATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
James Callow Keyword(s): ELIPSIS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank SPEECH -- Formula PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 01-00-1970
PROVERB
HAZ BIEN Y NO MIRES A QUIEN/DO A GOOD DEED AND DON'T
WORRY TO WHOM IT IS DONE FOR.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS INTERPRETED THAT ONE SHOULD ALWAYS WANT TO DO GOOD DEEDS,
AND BE KIND TO EVERYONE, INSTEAD OF TO ONLY A CHOSEN FEW.
Where learned: PUERTO RICO ; AGUADA
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: CA00001930S