Sisters, both skinny as a rail neither what you’d call pretty, left the building arm in arm with purpose in every stride. One said “Robert tried to tell me he’d watch the kids and pickup all the mess while I was gone. I told him my hind foot! Why in the world would you do that when you’ve never lifted a finger to help me before?” The sister said “I’ll tell you why, he knows they’ll be a paycheck at the end of this trip.”

Eavesdropping on their conversation made me wish I knew exactly what kind of trip they were going on.

I used to say ‘my hind foot’ all the time-using it exactly as she did as an expression of total disbelief. I think I’ll start saying it again. How about you-ever said it?

Tipper

Appalachia Through My Eyes – A series of photographs from my life in Southern Appalachia.

 

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  1. Made me smile. I used to say it all the time. And heard it often when I went to Martins Creek School.

  2. Yep, that one I’ve heard before. And I think I’ve used it a few times. And like you, I think I’ll start using it again! LoL
    I can only imagine the looks I’ll get.

  3. I grew up using my hind foot this way….guess I haven’t used it in a while…think I’ll start using it again…seems like I have a need for colorful language again.

  4. Used to be my mama’s favorite saying when one of her young’uns(surely not me!) used to try to pull the wool over her eyes-

  5. I have used ‘My left hind leg’ as in, “I had a cramp in my left hind leg that woke me up last night.” As I have aged it seems those cramps come more often lately. My wife says, “You wish.” at things she doesn’t quite believe.

  6. I am about 200 miles WSW of you. Never heard pish tosh in my life (61yrs). Heard my hind leg as a kid. Haven’t heard it in years. Have you ever heard “she led her ducks to a muddy water”?

  7. Tipper,
    I’ve heard “my hind foot” before
    and my uncle was forever coming to
    my shop talking about “his hind
    leg” a hurtin’. He was a coon hunter. When I was growing up, the
    guys I played with, if they didn’t
    believe what they heard, just said
    “my A_ _” …Ken

  8. 1. pish-tosh
    a nice, upper-crust, slightly less obnoxious way of saying “bullsxxt”
    “Pish-tosh, my good man!” “He means bullsxxt.”
    2. pish-tosh
    A phrase commonly used to scoff at some one or something; disbelief; A condescending interjection.
    Mel: We’re going to the movies, do you want to come?
    Bruce: Pish-tosh!

  9. Tipper,
    I have heard and used “my hind leg”..maybe “hind foot” too…I think that is the polite way to say my a;; that we hear so much today…I’ve heard Pish-posh as Ed mentioned…Mostly I just say
    “shoot, not in this lifetime”…
    or Aw shoot, don’t believe it…”Shoot” seemed to be the most used expression in my family.
    Mind you not S–t..but really “Shoot”…I really think I know where that expression came from….Shoot ask questions later??? Just kiddin’.
    Thanks for a gread post…
    I love it and I am waiting on other comments…Aw shucks, I hope everyone will chime in….

  10. Heard “my hind foot” for years although haven’t used it much myself in recent years. Now “pish tosh” is a favorite of mine as well as other more colorful expressions, as needed, which I will not share here. ; )

  11. Heard and used it, but not often. Mama never said it that I recall, but would often say “Oh, foot.”
    One use of that exclamation would be to show her disdain for some flimsy excuse for misbehavior – by Jim or Annette, of course.

  12. Mommy used a word I never heard before or since to indicate utter disbelief. “pssssst” Anybody else heard that?

  13. Yea mostly from old timers.Hey thats me. Used to hear that and crooked as a dogs hind leg. Thanks for the memories.

  14. Tipper-You have peaked my curiosity now. Could you tell me what building the skinny sisters were leaving? Sounds like a couple of crack hos out to turn their ebt cards into cash.

  15. Tis but a censured version of adage I heard as a lad. My @$$ — my hind end — my hind foot. I still use to latter but am much more likely to hear the former.
    Now I also mostly hear Yeah Right!
    Did you ever hear pish tosh?

  16. Nope, never heard of it, except here. I do think it is an excellent expression,and one I might find good use for.
    Don’t you wonder where expressions like this come from?

  17. I have never heard anyone say that but I remember how mad my Aunt Inis was when she hurt her leg and my Grandpa said she broke her hind leg.

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