What phrases do you use to encourage others to pick themselves up and dust themselves off? What words do you say to acknowledge someone’s bad luck and encourage them to move on? In a discussion on our Facebook group, listeners offer lots of suggestions, including “tough beans,” “tough darts,” “suck it up,” “tough nougies,” and “you knew it was a snake when you picked it up.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Facebook Discussion for Encouraging Phrases”
On our Facebook group, Patty writes what phrases do you use when telling someone the equivalent of suck it up or that’s the way the ball bounces or win some lose some. She says in her family we said tough toenails.
Tough toenails, yeah. What do you all say in yours? I can’t actually say it on the air.
Oh yeah, there’s two of them I can’t say either one of them on the air. You know it’s so funny because I was looking at this discussion, and there are so many ways to tell people to buck up, to cheer up.
Suck it up, buttercup. Rub some dirt on it. Tuffy beans. Somebody said their granddaddy says them’s the sticks. Tough noogies, tough darts. Also like this one. You knew it was a snake when you picked it up.
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