Canadian Sayings 2: 1,000 Folk Sayings Used by Canadians

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At last! Folk sayings are passed around by word of mouth in a small community where life and work are shared, and Casselman has collected 1,000 absolute beauties in this all new, all Canadian collection. As with the first volume, which was a #1 bestseller and stayed on the National Post bestseller list for a total of 61 weeks (!), these delightful and sometimes pungent sayings are annotated and arranged in over 130 categories, ranging from All is Well and All is Not Well through Anger, Appearance, Canadiana, ...
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At last! Folk sayings are passed around by word of mouth in a small community where life and work are shared, and Casselman has collected 1,000 absolute beauties in this all new, all Canadian collection. As with the first volume, which was a #1 bestseller and stayed on the National Post bestseller list for a total of 61 weeks (!), these delightful and sometimes pungent sayings are annotated and arranged in over 130 categories, ranging from All is Well and All is Not Well through Anger, Appearance, Canadiana, Clumsiness, Excuses, Fatness, Liars, Machismo, Shyness, Ugliness, and Thinking, to Water, Weakness, Wealth, and Work. No one else writes about our words like Bill Casselman does -- he has been called "A Bluenose among schooners on the sea of popular etymology".
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781552782729
  • Publisher: McArthur & Company
  • Publication date: 10/15/2002
  • Pages: 200
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Dedication v
Preface xvii
1,000 Canadian Sayings Arranged in 240 Categories
1. Abuse 1
2. Agreement 1
3. All Is Well 1
4. All Is Not Well 2
5. Anger 3
6. Animals: Farm, Domestic & Wild 5
7. Anonymity 6
8. Annoyance 7
9. Appearance 7
10. Approval 9
11. Bad Aim 9
12. Bad Luck 10
13. Bad Mood 11
14. Baldness 12
15. Beauty 12
16. Blabbermouths 12
17. Bodily Faults 13
18. Bodily Sensations 14
19. Boondocks 14
20. Boorishness 16
21. Boredom 16
22. Bragging 16
23. Bravery 16
24. Breadth 17
25. Bumpkins 17
26. Burping 17
27. Busybodies 18
28. Calming Down 18
29. Canadiana 20
30. Canadiana by Foreigners 25
31. Caution 26
32. Celebration & Partying 27
33. Chance 27
34. Cheap Goods 28
35. Cheekiness 29
36. Children 29
37. Chutzpah 34
38. Clumsiness 35
39. Complaint 36
40. Confusion 36
41. Consequences 37
42. Cosmetics 37
43. Cowardice 37
44. Craziness 37
45. Crime 39
46. Criticism 40
47. Crooks & Sleazoids 40
48. Crowding 41
49. Cursing 41
50. Dating 41
51. Death 41
52. Defecation & Urination 42
53. Demonstration 46
54. Difficulty 46
55. Disagreement 47
56. Disaster Control 47
57. Discretion 47
58. Dishonesty 47
59. Dismissal 48
60. Distance 50
61. Distrust 50
62. Don't touch! 51
63. Dress 51
64. Drinking Alcohol 52
65. Drugs 53
66. Ease 53
67. Eccentricity 54
68. Embarrassment 54
69. Embezzlement 54
70. Encouragement 54
71. Equanimity 55
72. Ethics 55
73. Evil 55
74. Exaggeration 55
75. Excellence 56
76. Exclamations 56
77. Excuses 56
78. Family 57
79. Farewells 57
80. Farming 57
81. Fatness 58
82. Fear 59
83. Feet 60
84. Female Beauty from a Male Chauvinist Perspective 60
85. Fighting 60
86. Fitness 61
87. Flatulence 61
88. Food & Cooking 63
89. Foolishness 68
90. Forgetfulness 68
91. Freckles 68
92. Friends 69
93. Fussiness 69
94. Futility 69
95. Gait 69
96. Gambling 70
97. Getting with the Program 70
98. Gist, Nub, Crux 70
99. Glibness 70
100. Gluttony 70
101. Go with the Flow 71
102. Good Luck 71
103. Grandchildren 71
104. Greetings 71
105. Hair 72
106. Happiness 72
107. Haste 73
108. Hatred 74
109. Hats 74
110. Heat & Warmth 75
111. Helping 75
112. Hospitality 75
113. Hunger 76
114. Hunting 76
115. Identification 77
116. Ignorance 77
117. Illness 78
118. Impossibility 78
119. Inaccuracy 78
120. Inbreeding, Avoidance of 78
121. Incompetence 79
122. Incredulity 80
123. Indecisiveness 80
124. Intelligence 81
125. Johnny-Come-Lately 81
126. Joy of Life 81
127. Language Mix-ups 82
128. Laughter 82
129. Laziness 82
130. Leadership 83
131. Liars 83
132. Living within One's Means 85
133. Losing 85
134. Lost & Found 85
135. Love 85
136. Machismo 87
137. Marriage 87
138. Meanness 88
139. Medical Muddle 88
140. Menstruation 89
141. Messiness 89
142. Military Slang 90
143. Miscellany 90
144. Mistakes 92
145. Mothers 92
146. Naivete 93
147. Nakedness 93
148. Neatness 93
149. Never 94
150. No Is the Answer 94
151. Noise 95
152. Nose-picking 95
153. Obviousness 95
154. Old Age 96
155. Old-fashionedness 97
156. Opportunity 97
157. Pessimism 97
158. Pests 98
159. Pets 98
160. Physical Fitness 98
161. Police 98
162. Pollution 99
163. Pouting 99
164. Poverty 100
165. Premature Judgement 101
166. Preparation 102
167. Priorities 102
168. Promises 102
169. Protesting 103
170. Public Speaking & Performing 103
171. Punishment 103
172. Railways 103
173. Rashness 103
174. Readiness 104
175. Reality Check 104
176. Recklessness 104
177. Religion 104
178. Restraint 105
179. Rumour 105
180. Sadness 105
181. School 105
182. Self-pity 105
183. Sex 106
184. Shopping 112
185. Shortness 112
186. Skepticism 113
187. Sleeping 113
188. Slowness 114
189. Smallness 114
190. Smoking 115
191. Sneakiness 115
192. Snobbery 116
193. Speaking Properly 117
194. Spelling Reversal 118
195. Spitefulness 119
196. Spitting Image 119
197. Sports 119
198. Stinginess 120
199. Strangers 121
200. Strength & Toughness 121
201. Struggle 121
202. Stubbornness 121
203. Stupidity 122
204. Sunburn 126
205. Surprise 126
206. Talent 127
207. Tallness 127
208. Teamwork 127
209. Tedium 128
210. Teeth 128
211. Tenacity 128
212. Theft 128
213. Thinness 129
214. Thirst 129
215. Threats 130
216. Time 133
217. Tools & Implements 133
218. Transportation 135
219. Travel 136
220. Trial & Error 137
221. Ugliness 138
222. Uncertainty of Life 140
223. Unconcern 140
224. Unemployment 140
225. Unpleasantness 140
226. Uselessness 141
227. Vindictiveness 143
228. Vomiting 143
229. Wanderlust 144
230. War 144
231. Wasting Time 144
232. Weakness 145
233. Wealth 145
234. Weather 146
235. Welcome 153
236. Wise in the Ways of the World 153
237. Wishing 153
238. Work 154
239. Yes Is the Answer 158
240. The End 158
A Final Reminder to the Reader 161
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