Daniel from Gardnerville, Nevada, remembers his aunt had a habit of responding to anyone who left the word so hanging there in mid-conversation with, Sew a button on your underwear. It’s is one of a whole family of playful rejoinders, including Sew...
Claudia in Gardnerville, Nevada, grew up hearing her mother use beat the band for anything happening with great force or flair, as in it’s snowing to beat the band or she was running to beat the band. The expression appears in the late 1800s in uses...
