Phrases from where you live Posted by Gary Martin
on December 12, 1999
Are there any phrases that originated where you live?
Here in Sheffield the phrases 'nose to the grindstone'
comes from the early steel industry, where grinders lay
face down on platforms over grindstones to sharpen and
polish cutlery.
'The Full Monty' has also become associated with
Sheffield as the eponymous film was located here,
although that's a much earlier phrase of course.
I see lots of traffic to the site (2,000 people/day)
and wonder where you all come from. Many from the
USA of course. Looking at the log files it seems
that the most common location is (if memory serves)
Vienna Falls, Virginia. I'd guess that this is
where an ISP like AOL hangs out rather than where
any of you are sitting.
Anyway - where are you, and what phrases come from
there?
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