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In bookstores July 2004
published by McArthur & Company
Here are newly collected folk sayings of the insulting kind that appear in volume three in the category entitled Dismissal.
1. He's all Stampede hat and no cattle.
• This Alberta put-down is heard throughout the year.2. Oh wow, dude! Can I be you for a day?
• After a high-school hotshot burned rubber in his first car, a savvy girl whom he was trying to impress, turned him down with this sarcastic dismissal.3. Make like a federal Tory and disappear.
4. Make like a Canadian passport photo and stop smiling.
5. Make like an Ontario nuclear plant and shut down.
6. Go fart peas at the moon.
7. You are a nit on the nut of a gnat.
8. Make like a maple leaf and drop off.
9. Make like an amoeba and split.
10. You kill it and I'll drag it behind the shed.
• If two guys were being bugged by an obvious loser, this threat might be spoken aloud between them.11. Now there's a specimen of God's carelessness.
12. Make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.
Do you know some Canadian sayings you'd like to appear in my next collection? Send them to me now.
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