I have a friend who isn’t american and he was drinking in a bar (in Maryland) when a woman passed him this note:
“My Dixie was wrecked”
He asked me what this meant, thinking it might be some american saying he wasn’t familiar with.
No one I’ve asked knows what this means.
Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean?
I am from Maryland and I’ve never heard this phrase.
However, please check the wording again–could it have possibly said, “My Dixie wrecked”? There is a hilarious story about this on this site. Still not sure why a woman would write this down and give it a man in a bar, unless she then asked him to read it out loud.
A similar phrase is, “You are sofa king lazy.”
In a similar vein, induce someone to read out loud:
“I am
sofa king
we tar dead.”
Especially when it’s broke up like that, the flash of recognition comes about two seconds too late.
RH
Thanks Cooking, that makes some sense.
It could be that the woman was playing mind games with him because he has an accent.
But, if this was a come on, I would hope she has better stuff than this. I could see a american guy passing the note, thinking it would be (maybe) funny to a foreign girl.
Flip it around and: He didn’t tell me the situation, only the note (this was through email). For all all I know, he might have been hitting on her and she was like: “here you go” as she blew him off.
Not bad. “Go figure this out.”
Still, that phrase stumped me (and I’m speaking the native language–but I’m not hitting on girls in a bar). But now that I see it in that context, I think I get it. I’ll have to ask him about the situation.
Thanks again, Cooking
I fell for this once, but it was “wee Todd did”