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This site has the expression."...and a new band would rise up from traditional roots and start making music good enough to make you throw your hat in the creek.I found the expression, you can find...
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If that's the only context it turns up in, I think chatty's got it: it's another something you wouldn't ordinarily do for expressions of the form "good enough to make you [do something you wouldn't...
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Well, for some reason, today I was able to google up a few sites. The one that caught my eye was on this "Dukes of Hazard" site (episode 9). That would say that it has a few wiskers on it.It reminds...
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Quote:It reminds me of another old red-neck type of saying: Don't that beat all? Seems to me "don't that beat all" is pretty ubiquitous. Or maybe I just need to wear a wider-brimmed hat. :)
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You are right, Jetty. But, I think it came from the sticks, as opposed from urban beginnings. Maybe Andy Griffith made it popular.
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I haven't a clue what this means. Baffled. Puzzled. Totally mystified. We are at last divided by one language. And if some kind soul doesn't enlighten me, I shall go to bed tonight with a great weight...
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From The First Hypertext Edition ofThe Dictionary of Phrase and FableTHE DICTIONARY OF PHRASE AND FABLE BY E. COBHAM BREWERFROM THE NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION OF 1894 To beat the Dutch. To draw a very...
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I know what it means but it is hard to define. It would be the same as "isn't that something" or "who'da thunkit". Now that I have made that as clear as a mud pie are there anymore questions?
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OED2 has some miscellaneous phrases involving throwing a hat, including to throw one's hat into the ring (to take up a challenge, with 1847 cite). Another one is to throw up one's hat: i.e. in token...
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My favorite expression that I never really understood is "Well slap me silly and call me Susan." Maybe after I get slapped around a bit, I'll go for a swim in the creek and look for y'alls hats. Last...
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There are hundreds of variants on that, daffy, most of which aren't even alliterative. Stephen Fry was fond of: 'Well, bugger me sideways and call me Mabel.'
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