49, born and raised in central Michigan, lived in central Ohio for 20+ years. Never heard it before the OP.
GT
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“Tump” is a very useful word that has no direct counterpart in standard English even though people need to express the idea frequently. My Massachusetts wife says it more than I do now because she finds it so handy. For those of you that don’t know what tump means: Tump - “To overturn suddenly and accidentally” as in, “Quit standing up on that wheelbarrow before you tump it over.” It can also mean to turn something over quickly an deliberately as in “Tump over that bucket of water.”
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What’s the difference between “tump” and “tip”?
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac]
What’s the difference between “tump” and “tip”?
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I think “tip” implies a gentleness or care that “tump” does not.
When I was in high school we said ‘bit the big cookie’.
50, Chicago, never heard it.
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Ditto, though I’m 29. I would have known what it meant, though. And how come we don’t get any Canadian TV channels? It’s less than a 3-hour drive to Canada!
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We do - but we’re only a two hour drive away.
Still never heard the phrase, even on Canadian TV. West Coast American.
Never heard that one in particular, but my mother frequently uses the phrase “had the wienie” in a similar manner, so I’d have figured it out by analogy.
51, grew up in the Northeast, lived in Utah, traveled around the country. Never heard it, never read it, never encountered it on TV or the movies or the radio. Never heard my Canadians friends say it, or heard it on Canadian TV or radio (we used to get it when I lived in Rochester).
First time I’ve encountered it was just now on the OP. I’d be looking at you blankly, too, although the meaning is clear from the context.
38, female, Northeast US. Never heard of it or any food variant saying the same thing.
[QUOTE=pulykamell]
Well, according to this wiktionary glossary of Canadian English words, they file it under Canadian slang.
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Yeah, that really stuffs the muffin.
[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Yeah, that really stuffs the muffin.
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Hey, now, don’t get your pancakes in a flip!
37, Canadian. Born and raised (and returned) in Thunder Bay, ON. I definitely have heard and used that expression. My dad uses it frequently, in the “this dishcloth” (pair of shoes, swimsuit, ) has had the biscuit. Genreally something that is beyond repair, usefullness, or anything. Sometimes he will say “I’ve pretty much had the biscuit” meaning he’s tired, but generally it was for a worn out item.
41 years, mostly in Texas. I guess this is one of those differences between Calgary and here.
40 years old, born and raised in Saskatchewan, heard it there, heard it all over the Prairies (also as “had the bun.”) I am also surprised that this is a Canadianism - it seems so common to me.
Wait a second, they want to delete that entry because it has no verifiability? From what I read, it’s pretty much accurate. I’m a Canadian, that’s Canadian slang - I just verified it. VERIFIED!!! That should be the new PWNED!!!
I grew up in SE Michigan and listened to a lot of Canadian radio (Not just CKLW, but CHYR, CKWW, and a few others) and I never heard it.
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UK, 50, I understand/understood what you meant but am not sure if I’ve heard it before.
We have a phrase: ‘That takes the biscuit’ which is a superlative, possibly perjorative.
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Live in New England, native Texan, but grew up in Blighty. As FRDE notes, I grew up hearing “That takes the biscuit!” to describe an egregious extreme act. It’s equivalent to the Americanism “takes the cake.”
And none of you own The Police’s Synchronicity?
[QUOTE=Sting]
O my God, you take the biscuit
Treating me this way
Expecting me to treat you well
No matter what you say
How can I turn the other cheek, it’s black and bruised and torn
I’ve been waiting since the day that I was born
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[QUOTE=matt_mcl]
plus papiste que le Pape…)
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Never heard it.
Spaniard, have bounced all over the States (OK, I’m exaggerating a bit); I know I’d heard “take the biscuit” instead of “the cake” but don’t think I’d heard the expression in the OP before.
Being more Papist than the Pope, that one I know all about. It’s the main accusation us “old timers” have against the Good Ol’ Boys from ETA, other than their illegal activities: most of them are newly arrived but want to be more Basque than those of use whose ancestors were here before the Romans. Sort of like that bf I had, who was born a UK citizen in Jamaica (pre-independence) and who was railing against immigrants to me one week after he’d been sworn in as an American citizen…