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TEN ACRES OF SAND AND A RED-HEADED WIFE
IS UAUALLY {SIC} THE END OF A PINHEAD'S LIFE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
Keyword(s): THINKS, PINHEAD MEANS DULL-WITTED.} ; {MEANING? COLLECTOR DOESN'T KNOW. PROBABLY, SHE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 09-20-1967
WEATHER RHYMES
THUNDER IN THE MORNING, ALL THE DAY STORMING;
THUNDER AT NIGHT IS THE SAILOR'S DELIGHT.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): {METEOROGICALLY INCORRECT}
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 09-07-1969
TIE THE DONKEY WHERE HIS MASTER SAYS.
OCBOT IL HANAE FEIN IGHEIDLU SIDU {MALTESE}
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME
Keyword(s): {MEANING? YOU SHOULD OBEY AUTHORITY, SAYS COLLECTOR}
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-08-1970
TIME IS AN HERB THAT CURES ALL DISEASES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MEDICINE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 10-01-1967
TOMMY, FREEDOM IS IN YOUR HOME.
Submitter comment:
POLISH: WOLNOSC TOMKU
W SWOJEM DOMKU.
THE NAME TOMMY IS USED IN THIS PROVERB BECAUSE IT RHYMES
WITH HOME. TOMMY REPRESENTS ANYONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): POLISH EQUIVALENT OF "A MAN'S HOME IS HIS CASTLE." ; THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS PROVERB, WHICH IS THE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 02-07-1971
TOMORROW I'LL REFORM THE FOOL DOES SAY
TODAY'S TOO LATE. THE WISE DID YESTERDAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): TIME
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Date learned: 00-00-1965
TOMORROW
TOMORROW NEVER COMES
Submitter comment: THERE IS A SAYING THAT..........
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): TIME
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Group of Vowels and Consonants, and of Words PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-14-1968
TOMORROW
TOMORROW NEVER COMES
Submitter comment: THERE IS A SAYING THAT..........
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): TIME
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Group of Vowels and Consonants, and of Words PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 11-14-1968
"TOMORROW, TOMORROW, BUT NOT TODAY," EVERY LAZY MAN
WILL SAY.
Where learned: HUNGARY
Keyword(s): TIME PROCRASTINATION
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb C880.400 |
Date learned: 00-00-1910
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR
VICE KNOWS SHE IS UGLY, SO SHE PUTS ON HER MASK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): SIN DECEIT COSTUME
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 11-16-1967
TOM SWIFTIE
"WHAT IS THE RED LIGHT FOR?" SHE ASKED HORRORIFYINGLY.
Where learned: QUESTIONNAIRE
Keyword(s): {THIS APPEARS TO ME NOT TO MAKE SENSE. }
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Wellerism Quotation |
Date learned: 03-26-1971
WHAT THE FARMER DOESN'T KNOW HE WON'T EAT.
Submitter comment: GERMAN: WAS DER BAUER NICHT KENNT DAS FRIST ER NICHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): "FRIST" HERE IS FROM THE VERB "FRESSEN," WHICH MEANS "TO ; EAT LIKE AN ANIMAL."
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 03-08-1970
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THE WELL RETORT
SOME PERSONS WHEN THEY THINK SAY "WELL...." A RETORT IS TO SAY
"THAT'S A DEEP SUBJECT" MEANING THAT THE SUBJECT-WELL- IS
DEEP.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; PLYMOUTH
Keyword(s): COMEBACK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 04-00-1971
THAT'S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
YOU NEED THAT LIKE A HOG NEEDS SIDE POCKETS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
YOU MAKE A BETTER DOOR THAN WINDOW.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS SAID WHEN SOMEONE IS BLOCKING YOUR WAY ESPECIALLY IN
FRONT OF THE T.V. SET.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
ACT YOUR AGE NOT YOUR SHOE SIZE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FARMINGTON
Keyword(s): COMEBACK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 03-00-1971
YOUR MOTHER WEARS ARMY BOOTS AND YOUR FATHER'S MUSTACHE.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HAS USED THIS MANY TIMES TO INSULT SOMEONE, BUT CANNOT
REMEMBER WHERE HE HEARD IT AS A CHILD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 10-31-1971
"YOU'RE BUILT WRONG; YOUR NOSE RUNS AND YOUR FEET SMELL."
USED WHEN IN CONVERSATION WITH A PERSON WHO HAS A COLD. HIS
FEET RUN AND HIS NOSE SMELLS UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS, BUT THIS
PHRASE IS USED FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS CONTRACTED THE COMMON COLD.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT USED THIS SAYING WHEN HE MET SOMEONE WITH A COLD. HE
REMEMBERS HIS GRANDFATHER USED IT JOKINGLY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): COMEBACK
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Date learned: 11-03-1971