Appalachian Sayings – Light a Rag
Junaluska Community – Cherokee Co. NC – July 2016 She said a storm was coming so she better light a rag…
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Appalachian Sayings – It’ll Put Hair On Your Chest
Hiking up and down steep mountains will put hair on your chest. It’ll also make you take naps in…
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Appalachian Sayings – Stacked up Like Cordwood
Folks were stacked up like cordwood on Saturday at the festival. The local paper said over 16,000 people visited the small…
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Brasstown – A Wide Place in the Road
If you’ve never been to Brasstown you might miss it as you drive through if you’re not paying close attention….
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Appalachian Sayings – Plumb Foolish
Brasstown – May 2016 foolish about, foolish over adjective phrase Fond of, infatuated with to the point of lacking judgment….
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Appalachian Sayings – As All Get Out
as all get out = extremely You can be: tired as all get out mad as all get out happy…
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Appalachian Sayings – Spitting Image
Chitter, Pap, and Chatter spitting image = looks just like someone There are lots of folks who can’t tell the…
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Appalachian Sayings – Hemmed and Hawed
Quit hemming and hawing and play something! —————– If you look in the dictionary for hem and haw you’ll find…
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Appalachian Sayings – Eh Law
Click on the bar below to hear Pap and my Uncle talking about the Walnut Cove and the Coleman Gap, better…
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Appalachian Sayings – I Gave Him What For
“That burned me up! I went right down there and told him what for and I made sure he understood…
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Appalachian Sayings – Scarce as Hen’s Teeth
Scarce as hen’s teeth = very rare I still hear the saying scarce as hen’s teeth in my part of…
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Appalachian Sayings – Take a Shine to
Take a shine to = develop a liking for I took a shine to The Deer Hunter the first time…
