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Custom
Chimney Sweep:
In Belgium, or Europe for that matter, each house usually had two or more chimneys. Since they needed cleaning periodically, chimney sweeps were common. Some of these were employed by the cities for the purpose. But, in each case, it was good practice to give the sweeper a good tip, for if you didn't he would play tricks on you. For instance, he might come back to clean your chimney at a future date, but not tell you. Then you would be unprepared and the soot would come into the house because you didn't close the soot door in time.
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Recorded on Tape
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Original BN [M848] crossed out and replaced with F534
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
Keyword(s): BUSINESS ; Chimney Sweep ; CUSTOM ; Gratuity ; OCCUPATIONS: CHIMNEY SWEEPING ; PRACTICAL JOKE ; TIPPING ; WORK
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Work Commerce Business |
Custom: Animal
Hunter's and Woodsman's Belief:
Although there is an open season on them all year a Good Sportsmen or Hunter will never shoot a porcupine. This is because if a person was ever lost in the woods without any food or a gun a porcupine can be easily killed with a stick or a club and the meat is very nutritious.
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Original BN [P752] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; Club ; FOOD ; Gun ; Hunt ; LOST ; Porcupine ; Survival ; Woods
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal |
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Proverb
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; SLIP ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Proverb
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; SLIP ; TRUTH ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb |
Proverb
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; Mouth ; PROVERB ; SLIP ; TRUTH ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Proverb
Many a slip, twixt the cup and the lip.
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This proverb means that anything can happen from the time you start something until you finish it.
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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; SLIP ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Autograph Verse
Album Rhyme:
Take a tip - dodge cupid's dart.
Don't let a soldier get your heart.
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Keyword(s): Album ; Aphorism ; AUTOGRAPH ; Cupid ; Dart ; HEART ; LOVE ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; Soldier ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music |
Wedding Custom
It is a custom for the bride and groom to entwine arms and share a cup of wine at the wedding reception.
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Keyword(s): Arm ; Arms ; Bride ; CEREMONY ; Cup ; CUSTOM ; DRINK ; Entwine ; GLASS ; Groom ; Reception ; WEDDING ; Wine
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage |
Language: Rhyme
Hickup Hickup go away
Come again another day
Hickup Hickup when I bake
I'll bake you a CAKE
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Pastime.
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Children sing this when they get the hiccups. Verse?
Original BN [C500, C730] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Keyword(s): Bake ; Cake ; CHILDREN ; GAME ; HICCUP ; Hickup ; Language ; Nursery ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
IF YOU PUT BOTH HANDS ON HEAD AND THINK OF YOUR BOYFRIEND/
GIRLFRIEND AND HE/SHE TRULY LOVES YOU, BY THEY TIME YOU
COUNT TO TEN YOU WILL BE RID OF YOUR HICCUPS.
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Where learned: OHIO ; TROTWOOD
Keyword(s): CURE ; HICCUPS ; REMEDY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 04-00-1972