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Miche Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Milwaukee idiom?

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00I've heard a phrase, "never been to/in Milwaukee" or something like that, and I think it has a figurative meaning. 02br
00Does anybody know idioms with Milwaukee? Or probably there is some cultural reference here? 0-
  

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" 02br 02br 02br 00Sorry, Miche, that's the only Milwaukee phrase I know. 0-

— Mister Micawber

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0"I'm from Milwaukee, 02br
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00It's 'Blatz, Blatz, Blatz, Blatz' 02br
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00Sorry, Miche, that's the only Milwaukee phrase I know. 0-
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0 Thank you, MM! 02br
00Probaby if this rhyme is the reference, the clue is in "blatz" (something wonderful or something awful???). I couldn't find it in my dictionary. Can you tell me what "blatz" is? 0-
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05000 0230hrefhttp://www.beercollections.com/Breweries/Wisconsin/Blatz_Brewing.htm
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0 Miche - could you give us any context in which the phrase might mean anything other than its literal meaning? I googled "never been to Milwaukee" and found about 250 hits, and all the ones on the first page were just literal statements that the speaker had never visited the city. I tried "never been to Madison" (another city in Wisconsin) and got roughly the same number, also apparently str
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0 Thank you all indeed! 02br
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00Anne, your link was very helpful. Obviously, "blatz" is not the clue. 02br
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00Knoff, the problem is that I heard the Milwaukee discussion several years ago and I don't remember the context.05000 Some translator was criticizing a colleague for having translated the phrase literally. I don't even think he explai
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0BTW, Knoff, the Missouri note was very interesting. 050010id1
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0 My wild guess: 02br
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00"I have never been to Milwaukee" might mean "I have never drunk alcohol." 02br
00Milwaukee is a city well-known for its brewing industry. Never having been to the city could mean not drinking alcohol. This is what flashed across my mind. Remember I am shooting in the dark, expecting a fluke. 0-
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0Pretty good guess, Komountain-- it sounds quite reasonable. 02br
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00You've gotten me thinking about what it could possibly mean idiomatically, and my own wild guess is that is might mean 'I'm not well-travelled / I'm not very sophisticated or cosmopolitan'. For a prairie boy or prairie girl, a few years ago, a trip to the 'big city' of Milwaukee would be an exciting eve
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0 Thanks, Komountain and Mr Micawber! 02br
00I'm now sure that if I see the phrase in a context I will have some very good ideas what it might mean. And I learned something about Milwaukee (including its spelling 05000 ).010id1
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I'm from Milwaukee and I ought to know

It's draft brewed Blatz beer where you go.

I went by the tavern last night and drank real much beer.
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