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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

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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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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.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: HOME

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

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Proverb

The Squeaky Wheel:

the wheel that squeaks the loudest gets the grease.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; REDFORD TOWNSHIP

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Compliance ; Grease ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB ; Rebel ; Squeak ; VERSE ; Wheel

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Proverb

The squeaking wheel gets greased.

Submitter comment:

Heard this often as a child, also, when living in Missouri and Ohio.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

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

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Language

Wheel is another name for bicycle

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): Bicycle ; Language ; SLANG ; Vocabulary ; Wheel

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Common Word

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