California Travel Tips
Fifty Years of Idioms, Sayings and Slang
Published on: January 27, 2017
California native Sid Hallburn loves old American slang, which he has been collecting for more than 50 years. In the picture Sid is the tall boy in the center, shown with his family in 1933.
“I really got serious about saving idioms, words and phrases when my 4-year-old daughter, Kathy, did not understand when I told her, ‘You’re a real whipper-snapper.’ ‘What’s that, daddy?’ she said. ‘It means you’re very active and into everything.'”
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