Wonderful things my grandmother would say

• Title changed to: ""Sweep the corners of a room and the middle will sweep itself."" from: ""Sweep the corners and the middle will sweep itself.""

• Title added: ""Sweep the corners and the middle will sweep itself.""
• Description added: "My great-grandmother drove my grandmother crazy with this saying."

Comment: "omg, that's funny!" view entry »

• Description changed to: "Definition: get out of the way or look out. Maybe a derivative of ah-ooga, like an old car horn?" from: "Definition: get out of the way or look out. Maybe a derivative of ah-oouga, like an old car horn?"

• Title added: "Oogie"
• Description added: "Definition: get out of the way or look out. Maybe a derivative of ah-oouga, like an old car horn?"

• Description changed to: "I'm pretty sure she came up with this and didn't pick it up anywhere. It was not "a saying" but just..." from: "I'm pretty sure she came up with this and didn't pick it up anywhere. It was not "a saying" but just..."

• Title added: "The Movie Rating System"
• Description added: "My family splits on whether it is a 3-star or 4-star system, but the 4 star version is: **** "I'm..."
• Links added: "First documented in this blog post"

• Title added: ""How's by you?""
• Description added: "Equivalent to "How are you?". Similarly, "Eh - and by you?" could be used to asked someone's opinion..."

• Title added: ""Did you have what to eat?""
• Description added: "Means "Did you have something to eat?". The "what to ____" construction was a recurring idiomatic..."

• Title added: ""If I don't have what to worry, I worry about that!""
• Description added: "As a Jewish grandmother, worrying was a big thing. This also features the "what to ____"..."