Skiing is fun until you wipe out, flinging two skis, two poles, and perhaps your lunch, all over the place. They call that a yard sale. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Skiing Yard Sale”
We asked you for slang from your pastimes, and we heard from Kathy Gregoire from Bozeman, Montana.
She’s a downhill skier, and she called to share the term yard sale.
Oh, yes, I know this. Actually, I have an entry for it in my official dictionary of unofficial English.
Do you?
And they use it in all kinds of skiing and skating.
And this is when you’ve got all your gear on and you ski down a hill and you crash and your skis are over here and your poles are over there.
Exactly.
Scattered.
Yeah.
So it’s your stuff is scattered in the grass.
Exactly.
Just like a yard sale.
Just like a yard sale.
Yes.
I think that Kathy had some firsthand experience with it.
It’s a fun one, though.
This is the stuff we like about slang.
The goofy, funny ones.
We love it.
Yes.
A little bit of humor in there.
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