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#151517 12/04/05 10:19 PM
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171 hits but meaning not apparent. Could this be one of those all-purpose phrases that the user drops anywhere he thinks it conceivably fit? How long has it been around


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From Amerispeak, expressions of our American ancestors:

THEY SAID: Shit fire and save your matches

WE SAY: Wow!

From Texas Slang II:

Shit (or shoot) fire and save the matches. ("I'll be darn)

I've never heard this expression. Where'd you run across it, Dale?

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it's a new one for me, too.


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I've heard "shit fire" but nothing about saving matches. It was never said in an intonation that would suggest that "shit" was a transitive verb with "fire" the object. The emphasis was always on the "shit".

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Con, I think I encountered it on PF


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I came across it in the novel "Cold Mountain". The book is vastly superior to the movie, even if the movie DOES have Donald Sutherland in it.

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Donald Sutherland played the role of Mister Bennett in this year's movie version of "Pride and Prejudice" and did it wonderfully.

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DS does seem to be improving with age -- or maybe it's just the comparison to Kiefer...

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Quote:

DS does seem to be improving with age -- or maybe it's just the comparison to Kiefer...




So what are we, pate?


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DS is hilarious in his screen debut(?) in Little Murders.

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