sun shining on a dog’s butt
other.— «Back home, we call that the sun shining on a dog’s butt. His days are still numbered.» —“Idol Chatter: Producers struggle to fill show; judges say justice done with Haley’s farewell” by Doug Pullen MLive.com (Michigan) Apr. 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
David from Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a former truck driver who remembers that his fellow users of CB radio tended to sound similar, no matter what part of the country they were from. Is there such a thing as an occupational accent? Many of those truck...
Katie in Kalamazoo, Michigan, wonders about the expression throw the book at, meaning to “try every means possible.” Did it originally involve literally throwing books? It’s just a metaphor in which the book refers to “the...