Take up dinner means we dish up the food from the stove or oven and put it in the serving dishes.
" Take up the green beans and I'll take up the potatoes. "
" Take up the green beans and I'll take up the potatoes. "
Common in Colorado, too. Regarding window shopping, I've always considered it extremely kind of jewelry stores to put all those pretty stones out where we can enjoy them. Practically a museum in the shopping mall. Especially in October, when they're displaying opals.Going window-shopping. (Looking through store windows but not buying anything.)
You mean that's not how it's pronounced?Crick (Creek)
Common in Colorado, too, but I always thought it meant "motionless."Like a bump on a log (useless)
Common in Colorado, too.High-falutin' (putting on airs.)
Common in Colorado, too.If I had my druthers. (If I had my choice.)
Huh, is that Southern? Like I said, I know a guy who says that, he doesn't sound Southern though. I'll have to ask him if he has any Southern family history, lol.Take and... (intend as in "I'm going to take and go to the store in a while.")
When I was a kid we used to say, "You're a pane (pain) but I can't see through you." when one of us stood in front of the t.v.I tell my son "Makes a great door but terrible window" when he stands in front of the tv.