That’s something my mom used to say. Well, she probably still says it, but I haven’t heard her say it lately.
It is a good description of my knitting progress this week, though. I knit exactly three rows on my shawl last night before I was too tired to think straight. Here you go:
Looks pretty much the same as yesterday, yes?
The title for my blog post got me wondering about the expression “slower than cold molasses running up hill” so I started a-googling. Here we go a-googling among the leaves so green! Come on, sing it with me.
The search returned 13,000 results.
One of those results was a site on how to speak like a Canadian. Go figure. My maternal grandfather’s family was Canadian, so perhaps how the phrase insinuated its way into my mom’s vocabulary.
But I also found it listed on a website of old Southern slang. Well, now.
And more specifically, I found it referred to as Tennessee slang. Hmmmmm . . .
But no matter where it came from, it is designated as Worthless Saying #67.
What’s your favorite worthless saying?
(Did you see what I did there? I have almost no knitting content to speak of so I quickly diverted your attention away from the knitting.)
Lucy Sez:
Most worthless expression? “You’ve had enough Wildside Salmon Treats.”