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Five Unusual Phrases
Mar. 1st, 2006 08:24 pmStolen from, and created by, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bunnyjadwiga
Five phrases you use in everyday conversation that you have to explain to most people:
1. Lately, I've caught myself more and more omitting the phrase "to be" from my statements. "My hair needs cut." "The cat needs fed." "The laundry needs done." "My hand needs x-rayed."
2. "Mount the sauce." I am adding butter to my pan sauce just before serving. I am not sodomizing my food.
3. "Eye-dee-ten-tee error (ID10T) and "The problem is between the computer and the chair." End-user error.
4. "I'm doing Atkins" does not mean I'm only eating steak and butter. I'm also eating Savory Toasted Cheese.
5. "No, that's not my daughter, it's my sister. Really."
Things I don't generally use in public but I'll explain nonetheless:
1. "Trash the living room." Remove all the miscellaneous detritus from the living room floor and bag it.
2. "I'm going to lie down and turn my bed on. Do you want me to turn your bed on?" We have a dual-control heated mattress pad. Life is goooood.
Some oddballs:
Ham and beans, in my world, is ham stock, with ham, and green beans, and potatoes. Not that orange beany mush they serve in Chester County.
Similarly, Chicken *Pot Pie* is chicken stock, with chicken, and veggies, and large doughy noodles. Chicken *Pie* is chicken and veggies in gravy inside a pie crust. Chicken *Pot Pie* is made in a pot. Chicken *Pie* in made in a pie tin.
I know there's more stuff, most of it I'm sure from my PA Dutch roots, but I can't think of anything at the moment, and Veronica Mars starts soon. (No, I'm not addicted, why do you ask?)
bunnyjadwigaFive phrases you use in everyday conversation that you have to explain to most people:
1. Lately, I've caught myself more and more omitting the phrase "to be" from my statements. "My hair needs cut." "The cat needs fed." "The laundry needs done." "My hand needs x-rayed."
2. "Mount the sauce." I am adding butter to my pan sauce just before serving. I am not sodomizing my food.
3. "Eye-dee-ten-tee error (ID10T) and "The problem is between the computer and the chair." End-user error.
4. "I'm doing Atkins" does not mean I'm only eating steak and butter. I'm also eating Savory Toasted Cheese.
5. "No, that's not my daughter, it's my sister. Really."
Things I don't generally use in public but I'll explain nonetheless:
1. "Trash the living room." Remove all the miscellaneous detritus from the living room floor and bag it.
2. "I'm going to lie down and turn my bed on. Do you want me to turn your bed on?" We have a dual-control heated mattress pad. Life is goooood.
Some oddballs:
Ham and beans, in my world, is ham stock, with ham, and green beans, and potatoes. Not that orange beany mush they serve in Chester County.
Similarly, Chicken *Pot Pie* is chicken stock, with chicken, and veggies, and large doughy noodles. Chicken *Pie* is chicken and veggies in gravy inside a pie crust. Chicken *Pot Pie* is made in a pot. Chicken *Pie* in made in a pie tin.
I know there's more stuff, most of it I'm sure from my PA Dutch roots, but I can't think of anything at the moment, and Veronica Mars starts soon. (No, I'm not addicted, why do you ask?)
