household phrases

[42itous]

Do 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.

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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Re: Blue EIT

[lunacow]

We also use the phrase "I'm blue" to refer to the state where I'm mostly ready to go, but it looks like other people aren't, so I'm going to continue what I'm doing.

My family calls that "lestering". "I'm just lestering" has the same usage you descrie for "I'm blue". We got it from bearsir, who I believe invented it but couldn't remember why that was the word chosen.

I have often wished people had indicator lights for a whole lot of things.