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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHeard an expression I haven't heard in Years
A neighbor couple was arguing. One of them said, "I been fixin' to do it!" "That's the problem," the other said. "You're always fixin' to do it, and you never do it."
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Heard an expression I haven't heard in Years (Original Post)
Wolf Frankula
Jan 2016
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uriel1972
(4,261 posts)1. In Australia someone is a 'Gunner'...
Gunner do this, Gunner do that.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)2. That sounds very Appalachian.
I have heard some of the more backwoods types around here say that.
He must need one of these to get started:
ashling
(25,771 posts)4. I'm from Texas
and I've said that all my life ... well, I mean, I say other things too, but you understand
SCantiGOP
(13,856 posts)3. you obviously don't live in SC
I doubt I go through a day without hearing that word. It actually means a time frame somewhere between "I'll get to it eventually" and "I'll do it right now."
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)5. Texas. Fixing to or finnin to.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)6. Use it everyday
Along with various forms of reckon
a couple two-three
Axed, for asked
Asupposed to
I love colloquialisms