Re: Local
English Sayings
Posted by ESC on May 17, 2002
In Reply to: Re: Local English Sayings
posted by ESC on May 17, 2002
: : The link below is to a small
site of 'Black Country' sayings. The 'Black Country' is the old industrial heart
of England. Some of the Sayings I recognise as being used well outside that part
of England. Do others use them too?
: : NB Please note lack of apostrophies!
: (West Virginia/Kentucky) The only one that is familiar to me is "Well, e's
took 'is eggs to a fine market, ay 'e?" Only our version is "He drove his geese
to a fine market." (Speaking sarcastically.) I think that's how it goes.
DRIVE
ONE'S DUCKS TO A POOR MARKET -- To make a poor manager or to associate with the
wrong people. Also to drive one's goose to a poor market. 'He's driving his goose
to a poor market, Pa said.' (Jesse Stuart, (Kentucky writer) 'Plum Grove Hills')
See also DROVE ONE'S DUCKS TO A PORE PUDDLE." From "Mountain Range: A Dictionary
of Expressions from Appalachia to the Ozarks" by Robert Hendrickson, Facts on
File, New York, 1997) And I've heard it said of someone marries an unsuitable
person.
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