I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you.

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I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you.

I used to hear that phrase a lot in the 50's. I used to use it a lot, maybe the 60's. I liked it. It seemed like a better comparison than the similar phrase people used (which I forget right now.)

Then it disappeared for 30 or 40 years.
But I've heard it at least 3 times in the last year.

Why do you suppose that is.

Posters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I was born and then lived in Western Pa. 10 years
Indianapolis 7 years
Chicago 6 years
Brooklyn, NY 12 years
Baltimore 26 years

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[nq:1]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you. I used to hear that phrase a lot in ... years. But I've heard it at least 3 times in the last year. Why do you suppose that is. [/nq]
In England it is still used fairly regularly - although we tend to say "I wouldn't trust you/him/her/them as far as I could throw you/him/her/them".

I used the expression myself less than a week ago when writing something to another ng.

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[nq:1]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you. I used to hear that phrase a lot in ... I liked it. It seemed like a better comparison than the similar phrase people used (which I forget right now.)[/nq]
I haven't heard it for a while. It was a stronger version of 'any further than I could see you'. Has THAT died out? Maybe it has.
[nq:1]Then it disappeared for 30 or 40 years. But I've heard it at least 3 times in the last year. Why do you suppose that is.[/nq]
Peter (UK)

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[nq:2]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw ... the similar phrase people used (which I forget right now.)[/nq]
[nq:1]I haven't heard it for a while. It was a stronger version of 'any further than I could see you'. Has THAT died out? Maybe it has.[/nq]
I'm 63 and I never heard that one!
[nq:2]Then it disappeared for 30 or 40 years. But I've ... in the last year. Why do you suppose that is.[/nq]
[nq:1]Peter (UK)[/nq]
I'm in the USA. See below.

Posters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I was born and then lived in Western Pa. 10 years
Indianapolis 7 years
Chicago 6 years
Brooklyn, NY 12 years
Baltimore 26 years

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[nq:1]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you. Why do you suppose that is.[/nq]
Is this a question.
Did you emerge out of the snow, by the way? I arrived from New York to B-more this evening, and had to dig a parking place for my car (which repeatedly got stuck) until 2am. Still eating dinner; if I don't die of exhaust(ion) and exhertion, I'll be fine.

You'd be crazy to e-mail me with the crazy. But leave the div alone.

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Me neither (UK).

Ian

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[nq:1]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you. I used to hear that phrase a lot in ... 40 years. But I've heard it at least 3 times in the last year. Why do you suppose that is.[/nq]
It hasn't disappeared in my 39 years of life.
Perhaps it's used more up north.

Jan Hyde

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[nq:1]I haven't heard it for a while. It was a stronger version of 'any further than I could see you'. Has THAT died out? Maybe it has.[/nq]
I think the last I heard it was from Ronnie Milsap in 1980, joking about his band members.
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[nq:1]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you. I used to hear that phrase a lot in ... 40 years. But I've heard it at least 3 times in the last year. Why do you suppose that is.[/nq]
Erosion of trust ...?
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[nq:2]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw ... in the last year. Why do you suppose that is.[/nq]
[nq:1]Erosion of trust ...?[/nq]
I'll be with you in an eroded truss

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[nq:2]I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you. Why do you suppose that is.[/nq]
[nq:1]Is this a question. Did you emerge out of the snow, by the way?[/nq]
Not really. Almost my entire yard (corner townhouse yard, not that small but it seems like it is) was filled with snow to 6 inches from the top of my fence. My fence is 42 inches high. The only places with less snow were under trees. A couple places drifts outside the fence reached the top of the fence.
Saturday, I think, I shoveled about 15 feet from the front door, just
10 inches wide (I don't know why people shovel the whole width oftheir sidewalk or driveway). I did that to use a 20 foot telescoping aluminum pole I have to knock the snow off of a couple fir trees and a pine tree. This morning I notice that one of those branches broke off anyhow, at the trunk. Oh well.
I lost a section of another fir tree in my back yard with the storm a couple weeks ago. But if it hadn't crack then (longitudially, a foot long up the middle of the sub-trunk), it would have broken this time.
[nq:1]I arrived from New York to B-more this evening, and had to dig a parking place for my car (which repeatedly got stuck) until 2am. Still eating dinner; if I don't die of exhaust(ion) and exhertion, I'll be fine.[/nq]I havent' touched my car. I haven't gotten closer to it than 30 feet. Because of trees, I can't even see it. There is a slim chance the roof will have ripped because of the weight of the snow. I let it stay buried for a week last year, when I was recuperating from surgery iirc, but this time the little tears in the roof are a tiny bit longer, and there is a lot more show. 28" instead of 16"? I'm probably going to put a new top on, myself, in the spring.

So I hope the top hasn't ripped/collapsed now. Not that it will cause much additional damage. I can brush the snow out and any that I don't get will evaporate, after melting or before. The car has been rained on with the top down several times before. So it won't cause much damage but it will be difficult to ride around in it if it has a top with a big hole in it. Cold, and it will rain also sometimes. When it's parked I have a vinyl cover, and also a commercial size garbage bag, big enough to cover the whole roof, but I can't use those when the car is moving.
But on Sunday, my next door neighbor, who doesn't really like me (I don't know why not. I'm a wonderful guy.) used his snow blower to clean his walk, and to do that he has to clean my walk first, becaus it is between his back yard and his walk (unusual layout here at the corner) So now I only have about 25 feet to get to where he has cleaned, and it's not that deep.
Anyhow, in 30 minutes I'm going to shovel out to where the neighbor snow-blew, and walk the rest of the way and sweep the snow off the car. If it doesn't snow too much more, I may be going out of town on wednesday, in someone else's car, so I'll just see how much melts by next Sunday night when I get back.

Posters should say where they live, and for which area they are asking questions. I was born and then lived in Western Pa. 10 years
Indianapolis 7 years
Chicago 6 years
Brooklyn, NY 12 years
Baltimore 26 years

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