I had to have some emergency dental work done this week after I lost an onlay from a back molar. Since the site was one where I'd already had a root canal no numbing was necessary; or so I thought! It was a lot more stressful (tugging, pulling, grinding!) than I had imagined, the time in the chair enduring all of this torture was well over an hour. I called Mr. G. when I was on my way home, he asked how it had been. I found myself saying "I feel like I was pulled through a knothole backwards"; this was a phrase that my grandmother used to use and I hadn't thought about it in years, it just came flooding back! Do you have those phrases, old sayings, that are stored way down deep in your memory? This made me smile. Thinking about her brought to mind another word (or maybe it's two words) that I don't know I've ever heard anyone else use. If I was in her care and wanted to go outside to play I was expected to stay in the dooryard (door yard?). I knew exactly what this meant, it described that area outside the backdoor that she could see when she when she stuck her head out to check on me. I wasn't allowed out of her sight. Have you ever heard that one before? How about you? What old sayings, or quaint phrases, are stored in your memories? We'd love to hear them.
Oh, PS- the tooth is all fixed and just fine again. 😉
Life is Good!
