household phrases
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42itousDo you have a word or phrase that your family or friends understand but a stranger wouldn't?
I came across this quotation: "I had a friend who used to say 'I’m on the rollerskates' to mean her period, as a reference to those daft Tampax ads where the actress skated around in white jeans."
In my family, we refer to the "as-you," which is the place you put things when they're on their way somewhere but you're not going to bother bringing them there now. I.e. Dad puts newspaper clippings at the bottom of the stairs, and the next time someone goes up, they bring the newspaper clippings up to his desk. Or we put mail in the as-you by the front door.
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majordomo and I were given a Santoku knife for our wedding. We got married at the height of the Sudoku puzzle craze. We call it the Sudoku knife.
I use "triffid" in place of "trivet." I actually have trouble saying the proper word. Luckily, it's easy for people not of my immediate family to tell what I mean from context.
I came across this quotation: "I had a friend who used to say 'I’m on the rollerskates' to mean her period, as a reference to those daft Tampax ads where the actress skated around in white jeans."
In my family, we refer to the "as-you," which is the place you put things when they're on their way somewhere but you're not going to bother bringing them there now. I.e. Dad puts newspaper clippings at the bottom of the stairs, and the next time someone goes up, they bring the newspaper clippings up to his desk. Or we put mail in the as-you by the front door.
majordomo and I were given a Santoku knife for our wedding. We got married at the height of the Sudoku puzzle craze. We call it the Sudoku knife.I use "triffid" in place of "trivet." I actually have trouble saying the proper word. Luckily, it's easy for people not of my immediate family to tell what I mean from context.
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Date: 2008-07-08 04:33 pm (UTC)"grunts" = underwear (yours truly could not say the word as a small child. Much teasing trhoughout childhood about it, so now I refer to all such garments by their specific cut, ie boxers, briefs, thongs, bikinis)
From parenthood:
"weed rat" = cornish game hen, which look startlingly like the spit-roasted weed rat in Shrek, if rats had no tails
"Vera" = any of my sons large Nerf guns, his favorite sword, and his defender lacross stick (See also: Firefly, 'Our Mrs Reynolds', scene 3)
There's more, but those are the one's that spring to mind first. -H...