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It's a grey day here ... dark enough to require turning on lamps ... so I'd like to throw this out for comment.
Here in New England we look for a patch of blue in an overcast sky as an indication the weather might clear. We say we are looking for "the Dutchman's Pants" meaning that we want to find a patch of blue sky about the size of a pair of old fashioned (traditional costume) Dutchman's Pants.
You have anything similar?
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I've never heard the expression, wow, even though we have plenty of reason to gaze hopefully at the gray in mid-Michigan. OTOH, we say, "if you don't like the weather, just wait a few days," since nothing stays the same around here for long. Oh, sure, its been raining for days here, but I know tomorrow will be different: we'll have hail!
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Dear wow: I never heard the term "Dutchman's Pants" for a break in overcast hinting impending improvement in weather. But entering those words in Yahoo Search box brought up some attractive pictures of flowers so named.
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We are talking a BIG patch of blue ... think of Paul Bunyan in a pair of Dutch pants of the traditional variety ... loose and full from waist to ankle.
I Googled "Dutchman's Britches" and found a picture and lots of info on the flower which is quite lovely. Thanks wwh.
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I come from northern California and we say, "If you don't like the weather, just wait a few minutes." It can often change from sun to rain (with a rainbow!) to hail and back to sun again in the space of 20 minutes or so. I don't think we have a saying to compare to Dutchman's Pants though. We just say, "a patch of blue."
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"If you don't like the weather, wait a minute."
You guys stole that from New England!
Perhaps the only case where something started here and went west instead of the other way around!
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Perhaps the only case where something started here and went west instead of the other way around!
Well, the people out there on the west coast didn't just magically appear. Where do you suppose they came from?
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My mom always said "There's enough blue to make a shirt." Obviously I come from a long line of seamstresses... 
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the people out there on the west coast didn't just magically appear.
They didn't?
Where do you suppose they came from?
I've wondered about that myself.
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the people out there on the west coast didn't just magically appear.
They didn't?
Where do you suppose they came from?
I've wondered about that myself.Okay, okay, i can't resist. The truth is, we descended from Olympus.
(*duh!!*)
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