put a nickle in someone
v. phr.— «Well daddy better say good night or you’ll think some one put a nickle in me.» —by Gerard Cook Letters to Virginia , 1944. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
put a nickle in someone
v. phr.— «Well daddy better say good night or you’ll think some one put a nickle in me.» —by Gerard Cook Letters to Virginia , 1944. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
A Virginia listener says that often when she’d leave the house, her grandfather would tell her Remember you belong to the land of the blue hen’s chicken. What in the world did that mean? The feisty blue hen is the state bird of Delaware...
“What has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn’t a cat?” Answer: a kitten! A 1948 children’s joke book has lots of these to share with kids. Plus: an easy explanation for the difference between...