Iowa Farm Sayings

[BoxsterCy]

"Rise and shine it's daylight in the swamp" or my dad's version "Rise and shine the sun is in the swamp."

God I hated that but would love to be able to hear it one more time.

 

[CyForPresident]

Mow when it’s muddy, bail when it’s sunny.

Cheese and rice!

 

[xr4ticlone]

"That salemens got more moves than a pig on ice" - I'm steeling that!

 

[xr4ticlone]

A buddy of mine's dad...

When it comes to talking about yields...the first liar never had a chance. : )

 

[moebar]

Sledding down the bankin

Paying taxes is like buying a dead racehorse

 

[moebar]

Remember, you are pulling a rake behind the tractor, so don't take out the corner post going through the gate

Boy, Didn't I tell you do not take out the corner post !!!!!!!!!

 

[CyberJJJ]

When I complained about doing chores in the rain, dad assured me “**** won’t melt!”

 

[CyberJJJ]

Noisier than 2 skeletons doing it on a hot tin roof in a hail storm using tin cans for condoms!

 

[moebar]

Dad's favorite saying:

Ain't that the berries

 

[CyberJJJ]

He doesn’t know s*#t from shinola.

 

[CyberJJJ]

Describing death...

He kicked the bucket.
He bought the farm.

 

[CyberJJJ]

I wish I had a dollar for every time I head, “Rise and shine—you’re burning daylight! You can sleep when you are dead.”

 

[psi445]

Like a cow p****** on a flat rock

 

[cyclones500]

To me, **** kickers were regular leather work boots. Or say insulated rubber boots worn in the cold and snow and when things were deep (standalone, not worn over leather boots).

I don't recall calling regular buckle-up rain boots **** kickers. They are pert near that, so I am less certain about that.

Rubbers, with the soft rubber button fastener, might have been called rubbers or rain boots or boots. By brand name they were Tingleys, which I believe we called them some, but probably not a lot. I recall that the veterinarians wore them more than we did.

Probably most people still know what "it is getting pretty deep in here" means.

My dad called rubber boots you wore over the work boots/work shoe were "overshoes" and slip-ons for dress shoes were "rubbers."

In another clothing-related detail, he typically referred to jeans/casual pants as "trousers" and called dress pants "slacks."

 

[arobb]

He doesn’t know s*#t from shinola.

 

[cyclones500]

"A miss is as good as a mile."

 

[cyclones500]

Lol yep. Breakfast, dinner, supper. Got some grief for that occasionally after going to college.

Yeah I got razzed for that by some friends in college. "That's such a farm thing." Or the like.

Eventually I settled on calling it breakfast-lunch-supper. Lunch becomes dinner if it's a large meal sometime noon-3 p.m.

 

[cyclone101]

Yeah I got razzed for that by some friends in college. "That's such a farm thing." Or the like.

Eventually I settled on calling it breakfast-lunch-supper. Lunch becomes dinner if it's a large meal sometime noon-3 p.m.

Yeah I've adjusted too. When I go back home, without even thinking about it I say breakfast, dinner, supper. Any other time I'm usually saying breakfast, lunch, supper. It's like leaving your keys in the ignition when you are back home on the farm vs taking them out when you are anywhere else... you do it without even thinking.

 

[cyclones500]

"Throw the hogs over the fence some feed."

"Corn's up."

 

[Clone83]

My dad called rubber boots you wore over the work boots/work shoe were "overshoes" and slip-ons for dress shoes were "rubbers." . . .

That sounds correct, most consistent with our usage as well, I believe. Thanks.

I would add that winters when I was growing up were longer and colder and it snowed a lot. It could be muddy and wet for quite awhile with the snow melt. It was odd in college when some years it hardly snowed at all.