Expressions you use that nobody understands

[bayougump]

I say it all the time and sure others do as well. I'm "fixin to go do something" instead of "I'm about to go do something". Must be southern thing. Also the saying "hit the bushes" is used daily round here

 

[robinfly]

Get your head out your ass??

Bingo! Pops had a weird way with words

 

[scooterj]

What's wrong with hosepipe?

 

[ahamay79]

"Let me get on with my rat killin'."

"Y'all get down and come in."

"That boy talks out the side of his neck."

 

[10November1775]

Dude really? As Marines, does this not happen ALL THE TIME!?

I also work on an Army Base.....yea......all the time.

Our Jargon don't match. However ONCE in a Blue Moon I find a cross-dresser and have a brief moment of camaraderie

I actually chuckled because when i joined there was actually expressions i used in boot camp and in the fleet that other Marines didnt understand. Louisiana is more twisted than the Corps.

 

[Rebeldave]

What's wrong with hosepipe?

what else do you call the hose to water flowers

 

[Neil09]

Breakfast, lunch, supper

 

[aroundlsu]

When I have to **** with a group of friends I always say I'm going 10-1 be right back. They never have any idea what I am talking about.

 

[charlie12]

"Mox - Nix"

I haven't said that too much since I left Germany

 

[charlie12]

What's wrong with hosepipe?

If you tell me to go get the hosepipe I know what to get, the damn hosepipe.

 

[CEHollier]

When my son would complain I told him to stop Mullygrubbing. Means whine or complain.

 

[dustyk70]

When someone doesn't know what they are doing I say. You don't know rat **** from rice crispies. Always gets "the look" if you know what I mean. Hehe.

 

[FTRrookie]

Funny you should bring this up. We were just talking about this at work yesterday. We moved to LA when I was about 11. The first time I heard "Mynez" for mayo I didn't know what the heck they were talking about. A neighbor was making her kids and me a sandwich and she asked me if I wanted "Mynez" on it. I was clueless. Same with "hosepipe". It's either a "garden hose" or just "hose" for short.

 

[N4sir]

Years ago my wife had a friend visiting us from Virginia. We were headed to the French Quarter on day and I had to stop by my mothers house to drop something off. Upon exiting the car I asked my wife if they wanted to "get down" or just wait in the car? Her friend gave her and then me this crazy look. While I was inside my mothers house she told my wife that she thought I was asking both of them if they wanted to have sex right then and there. Lol...... We had to explain the list of New Orleans "slang terms" from then on.

 

[TomTerrific]

"Full as a tic" still pisses my mom off when my dad says it at the dinner table.
That said, I say dinner, my wife says supper.

That is "Full as a tick." I heard that as a kid.

"Mox - Nix" means have no preference one way or the other, or as my Granny would say "Six of one, half a dozen of the other"

From the German "Machts nichts," or, literally, makes nothing, equivalent to the current expression "No problem."

I hadn't heard about "making groceries" until I moved to Gonzales 45y ago.

Also, the use of "bring" when the proper work is "take."

 

[gabesurface]

I'm originally from the north and moved to Louisiana 5 years ago. I didn't understand half of what was said for the first couple months. If it was slang, I didn't get it.

 

[JetMech]

A classic from my home state when you are giving a lost driver directions is, "You can't get there from here."

 

[sportsbud]

Whenever i speak in spanish, noone around here knows what i am saying... so I have some fun with it... makes for serious glares if they figure out what im saying lol...

 

[Unclee1]

Ya can't polish a turd.

 

[TDuhe87]

I always say icebox instead of refrigerator... I always say hosepipe also