put heads in beds
v. phr.— «The hotels in Jefferson County are largely driven by manufacturing.…People bring in temporary workers and there are the construction projects. We have a lot of work to do here to, as they say in the industry, “put heads in beds.”» —“Meeting sheds light on aspect of area economy” by Steve Sharp Watertown Daily Times (Wisconsin) July 27, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Sara in Madison, Wisconsin, was reading an old edition of The Joy of Cooking and came across a recipe that described a cake’s ingredients as earrings for an elephant. She couldn’t discern whether the authors meant that was a good thing...
After our conversation about wishing well eggs, a listener from Viroqua, Wisconsin, chimes in with another name for this egg-in-toast dish: UFOs, short for Unidentified Frying Objects. This is part of a complete episode.
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