BS: Enough already

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 11:46 AM

I like "Bless his little cotton socks."

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 11:55 AM

My mother's version was always "Bless his little cotton socks and tartan troosers". No idea why

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:06 PM

This here minds me of the many such Mudcat threads of yore.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Kampervan
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:31 PM

If Uk'icisms are making their way to the US in the same way as Americanisms are becoming established here then I don't mind it so much.

If it's a two-way street then that's fair dinkum.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:48 PM

We might just say "ah, bless!" When someone's being a big girl's blouse, Acme.

"Whose she when she's at home?"

Not quite right. There's no "h" in 'ome in that sentence!

(But we'll let you off the "whose." Heheh!)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:54 PM

As long as you let me off that capital W. Grr.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:58 PM

Forget about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 01:03 PM

How can I forget about it when I'm obsessing?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:27 PM

I need it asap.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:43 PM

Way cool

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:44 PM

Ya all talk funny

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 05:47 PM

Blow it out yo' ass, boy.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 05:59 PM

We love you to death.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:17 PM

You bet yo' ass.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: John P
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:05 PM

From the OP:
So I say to you, give over. Enough already!

Steve, you're complaining about "enough already" while saying "give over"? What the hell does that mean? Give over with the "give over"!

"Already" can get added to almost any other word to add impatient emphasis. "All right already", "Shut up already", "Let's go already", "Get your guitar already". I've always assumed it was a translation from Yiddish.

And what does it mean when you accuse someone of being a big girl's blouse???

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:34 PM

Great to see you again, John! :-)

A "big girl's blouse" is hard to paraphrase in any sensible way. It could mean a man who's not currently behaving as a man's man, if you know what I mean. If a mate of yours is being a bit of a big girl's blouse, you and your other mates will be giving each other knowing looks and wondering when the big girl's blouse in question is ever going to man up. It's a bloke who's fretting openly and fussily about pointless trivia with his mates, such as worrying aloud in the pub after six pints whether his wife's having an affair. Grown men have got better things to worry about, but the big girl's blouse doesn't realise it, and goes on and on about it, boring the arses off his mates. That sort of thing. Hope this helps.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:38 PM

Ya all crazier then a possum eaten sausage

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:39 PM

Git on it right quick

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:46 PM

Ditto

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:47 PM

Here a butt,
there a butt,
everywhere a
butt-butt.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: michaelr
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:59 PM

This thread needs fixed.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:15 PM

Are you saying you wanna butt outta here? Or are you gonna plead the fifth on that one?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:45 PM

Do tge math.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:46 PM

Why so upset?
It was only a typo.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 09:49 PM

Oh, pull up your big girl panties and deal with it!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 03:18 AM

What does it matter for you?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 06:08 AM

Get over yourself, you big wuss. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Kampervan
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 07:43 AM

Don't know what's with my pants this morning, they fit well enough yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: John P
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 08:54 AM

Deal.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:27 AM

No worries

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: akenaton
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:42 AM

I have a friend who has lived a long time in the US, she always says "I want to talk WITH you", rather than "I want to talk TO you" as we do in the UK......I like that :0)

Another phrase she uses is "you did too!", rather than "you did so!"

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 12:11 PM

Why don't Amurcans realise that 'fit' is present tense, and that the past tense is 'fitted'?

And don't y'all gimme the 'economy of letters' bullshine, when you add a completely unnecessary and pointless 'ten' to the end of 'got'!

😄😎

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 06:55 PM

Like dude what ya sayin

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 06:32 PM

No sweat, dude. Let's roll with it, y'all.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Janie
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 11:15 PM

Bless your little pea pickin' hearts. I'd dearly love to join in, but have to carry my neighbor to the store just now. Only problem is somebody parked cattywhomped in front of me and I can't get the car out of the parking space.

Not gonna get my panties in a wad about it. I'll just sit here and chill, listening to this dope Guy Clark CD while I follow this dope thread on my iPhone.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: BobL
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 04:25 AM

I understand the expression "big girl's blouse" to be a figure of speech, where a container stands for the contents...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 05:00 AM

For it to be what you say, "big girl's blouse" would have to refer to two people at once if you think about it (don't think too hard, please😜). I think it might have referred to said garment flapping in the breeze on the washing line, just as a weak-willed and slightly fussy, effeminate chap might be said to be flapping.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 07:57 AM

I find "my bad" succinct and useful. But I hate "talk with" and "meet with" and "visit with". Illiterate and unnecessary. And "different than" rather than "different from".

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 01:13 PM

Man up, at the end of the day it's no biggie

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 05:44 PM

It's almost enough but not ready for drinking yet

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 06:07 PM

Suck it and see.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 08:26 PM

If ya drink it early, ya won't be able to see

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Airymouse
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 10:44 PM

A few miscellaneous thoughts:
"Well, bless his heart" means he's an idiot, but because I'm from the South, I'm too polite to tell you that. Of course, "Well, bless your heart" means you're an idiot.
I've already tried to defend "needs fixed" in another thread. We leave out "to be", which is understood. Are you unhappy with "The dog wants (to be) out? How about, The defendant is presumed (to be) innocent until he is proven (to be) guilty?
"Right quick" means very quick, just as "right reverend" means very reverend.
Some people over here do understand that "fitted" is the past tense of "fit":
Although a baseball may be hit, not hitted,
The past tense of fit is always fitted.
The sole exception worth a haricot
Is "Joshua fit de battle of Jericho".
Ogden Nash
I have to admit that we sometimes invent strong verbs, as if English didn't have enough irregularities* already. In the North, maybe just New England, they think the past tense of "dive" is "dove" and in the South we have sneaked in "snuck" as the past tense of "sneak."
*If you think I'm wandering off topic, just omit this word.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 06:40 AM

And don't start me off with the abominable "fora."

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:23 PM

I'm glad I returned to this thread in less than a fortnight. Pardon my grammar error in my previous post.
If home is 'ome, shouldn't Who's be Oo's?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 04:59 AM

Correct, especially if, like me, you agree that northern English is the true tongue.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Raggytash
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 05:47 AM

Has bin man bin Mam, doust mean dustman.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 07:01 AM

True, Raggy

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 10:28 AM

As one raised in Virginia USA and living in the UK more than a dozen years, I find quite a few idioms crossing the Atlantic in both directions among my facebook friends. Sometimes it strikes me as peculiar and I have to think hard about where the phrase originated. Then blessed dementia steps in, I get distracted from my musings, and move on.

I also sing Joshua "Fit" the Battle of Jerhico, when I can remember the lyrics and the tune together.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 10:31 AM

One nun dead!