Off topic, but i am interested in language. Mind telling me your age and where you were raised, that you aren't familiar with the expression "in tall cotton"?Terier said:Just curious about what does that statement mean.
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Off topic, but i am interested in language. Mind telling me your age and where you were raised, that you aren't familiar with the expression "in tall cotton"?Terier said:Just curious about what does that statement mean.
Marsha/CA said:cpnegrad
'In tall cotton" is basically a regional slang/idiom phrase. I'm from Alabama and know what it means, but lots of my California friends have no idea what it means.
Marsha/CA said:cpnegrad
. In the South when cotton was harvested by manual labor, if the cotton was tall, it was easier to pick and you got more of it; meaning you had more wealth.
Marsha~
Tom and Margi said:I'm a 3rd generation native Californian but grew up in the Oil Patch among lots of people who had moved from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, etc., to work in the oil fields. One saying I remember, "pert near, but not plumb", meant almost. As in, "Did you finish that job?" "Pert near, but not plumb."
Also Californians in my youth were called Prune Pickers. I have no idea why. (I knew what "tall cotton" meant, too. )
Margi
Lou Schneider said:Cotton is one of the crops grown in CA's Central Valley, so the tall cotton reference may not be totally foreign to that area.
falconhunter said:Not really a north or south phrase but my father told me the term ?the whole nine yards? was actually an air force term. The length of a belt of ammo on a spitfire 50 cal. machine gun was nine yards long so when you gave someone the whole nine yards you emptied your machine gun on them.