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PROVERB
KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBS
LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
LET YOUR HAIR DOWN.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
A NEW BROOM SWEEP CLEAN.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
ROSES ARE FOREVER.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
Keyword(s): SENTIMENT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
SLOW AS MOLASSES.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
SMILE AND THE WORLD SMILES WITH YOU; CRY AND YOU CRY
ALONE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Blason Populaire |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
STOP THE WORLD I WANNA GET OFF.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
AS SURE AS SHOOTIN'
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
THAT WENT OVER LIKE A HOT POTATOE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
Keyword(s): POTATO
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
THERE'S A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
THIS IS A BUNCH OF BULL.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
TILL HELL FREEZES OVER.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
WAR IS HELL, HELL.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL PHRASE
WATCH OUT FOR FALLING ROCK, HE'S BOLDER THAN YOU THINK.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY WHEN YOU PAST (PASS) THE SIGN ON THE
HIGHWAY THAT SAYS "WATCH FOR FALLING ROCK" OR "FALLEN ROCK
ZONE." FIRST YOU READ THE SIGN OUT LOUD, THEN SAY "WATCH
OUT . . . ." AND THEN LAUGH REAL LOUD. EVERYBODY ELSE
GOES "OHHHHH." GIVEN TO ME BY LYNN FISHER, WHEN SHE WAS
NINE YEARS OLD, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 1968 SUMMER.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
Keyword(s): WORDPLAY
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 06-00-1968
PROVERB
YOU BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor PROVERB -- Proverbial Phrase |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERB
YOUR ASS IS GRASS AND I'M A LAWN MOWER.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
PROVERBIAL METAPHOR: STICKY SITUATION
YOU'LL BE UP SALT RIVER FOR SURE.
Submitter comment:
SAID BY NEIGHBOR, MRS. FLOYD SHRADER, IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY,
1945-1972 TO EXPRESS THAT SOMEONE WAS LOST, OR THAT THEY
COULDN'T GET OUT OF A PARTICULAR SITUATION WITHOUT A LOT OF
TROUBLE. SHE SAID THAT HENRY CLAY WENT UP SALT RIVER IN
KENTUCKY TO CAMPAIGN AND GOT LOST UP THERE AND COULDN'T FIND
HIS WAY OUT. MRS. SHRADER WAS FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. BUT LIVED
IN LOUISVILLE, WHERE HER HUSBAND WAS WITH THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS
IN THE GROUND WATER DIVISION.
Where learned: KENTUCKY ; LOUISVILLE
Keyword(s): STICKY SITUATION
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Secular hero PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |