who laid the rail
adv. phr.— «Well yes, there’s trucks setting there full of cold water heaters. I mean I got groundhogs running to who laid the rail from there.» —by Robert Marshek Minutes Of The Informal Meeting Of The Johnson County Board Of Supervisors (Iowa) May 9, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Debbie from Keokuk, Iowa, shares a funny story about her family’s tradition of speed-cleaning the house if guests were coming over. Her mother would declare, “Quick, guys! Whited sepulchre approach!” Her use of the term whited...
Ribbon fall. Gallery forest. You won’t find terms like these in most dictionaries, but they and hundreds like them are discussed by famous writers in the book Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape. The book is an intriguing collection...