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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
28-Dec-09 - 02:57 PM
Thread Name: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
"Let's hire it up." Add spice or other flavoring to stew, etc. Georgia.
"He's got more money (or whatever) than a carter's got oats." Old Georgia. Carter = wagoneer or trucker.

Catercorner. In a diagonal or oblique position. Very old word, originated in England. Wide use in the U. S.; not a colloquialism (See Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Collegiate); English usage from 1577, as Cater where it also appears as Catercross and Caterways.