Proper spelling/saying
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My 90 year old father has a saying, "I've been dragged through an auger hole and beat with a sut rake."
It means you're worn out or have been treated badly.
"Sut" pronounced almost like "soot."
Not sure about "auger hole" or "sut" I know it ends with " rake. "
I can't find anything on google, but perhaps I'm spelling a couple of words wrong?
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My 90 year old father has a saying, "I've been dragged through an auger hole and beat with a sut rake."
It means you're worn out or have been treated badly.
"Sut" pronounced almost like "soot."
Not sure about "auger hole" or "sut" I know it ends with " rake. "
I can't find anything on google, but perhaps I'm spelling a couple of words wrong?
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dragged through a hedge backwards is a common expression and pulled through an auger hole is highly likely as a similar euphemism. I cant think of a suitable "soot rake" meaning unless it was a local type. Where did he hail from? What did he do? unintentionally sounds a bit like cotton eye joe phrasing?
– KJO
2 days ago
I think he's probably saying auger and soot. An auger is something that drills holes, but here it is certainly a euphemism for another kind of hole that also starts with a. And similarly, I suspect he's saying soot rake, where soot is a euphemism for a different kind of substance that you might rake and that starts with sh.
– Peter Shor
2 days ago
The nearest modern term to soot rake is ash/coke/coal rake a heavy lump of flat iron with a long handle. It is possible that cooks or chimney sweeps may have had in the past a variant for raking out soot. Or as hinted at by @PeterShor could be one of these kramer.co.uk/Stable-Pasture/Stable-Arena/Mucking-Out/…
– KJO
2 days ago
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My 90 year old father has a saying, "I've been dragged through an auger hole and beat with a sut rake."
It means you're worn out or have been treated badly.
"Sut" pronounced almost like "soot."
Not sure about "auger hole" or "sut" I know it ends with " rake. "
I can't find anything on google, but perhaps I'm spelling a couple of words wrong?
expressions popular-refrains
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My 90 year old father has a saying, "I've been dragged through an auger hole and beat with a sut rake."
It means you're worn out or have been treated badly.
"Sut" pronounced almost like "soot."
Not sure about "auger hole" or "sut" I know it ends with " rake. "
I can't find anything on google, but perhaps I'm spelling a couple of words wrong?
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dragged through a hedge backwards is a common expression and pulled through an auger hole is highly likely as a similar euphemism. I cant think of a suitable "soot rake" meaning unless it was a local type. Where did he hail from? What did he do? unintentionally sounds a bit like cotton eye joe phrasing?
– KJO
2 days ago
I think he's probably saying auger and soot. An auger is something that drills holes, but here it is certainly a euphemism for another kind of hole that also starts with a. And similarly, I suspect he's saying soot rake, where soot is a euphemism for a different kind of substance that you might rake and that starts with sh.
– Peter Shor
2 days ago
The nearest modern term to soot rake is ash/coke/coal rake a heavy lump of flat iron with a long handle. It is possible that cooks or chimney sweeps may have had in the past a variant for raking out soot. Or as hinted at by @PeterShor could be one of these kramer.co.uk/Stable-Pasture/Stable-Arena/Mucking-Out/…
– KJO
2 days ago
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dragged through a hedge backwards is a common expression and pulled through an auger hole is highly likely as a similar euphemism. I cant think of a suitable "soot rake" meaning unless it was a local type. Where did he hail from? What did he do? unintentionally sounds a bit like cotton eye joe phrasing?
– KJO
2 days ago
I think he's probably saying auger and soot. An auger is something that drills holes, but here it is certainly a euphemism for another kind of hole that also starts with a. And similarly, I suspect he's saying soot rake, where soot is a euphemism for a different kind of substance that you might rake and that starts with sh.
– Peter Shor
2 days ago
The nearest modern term to soot rake is ash/coke/coal rake a heavy lump of flat iron with a long handle. It is possible that cooks or chimney sweeps may have had in the past a variant for raking out soot. Or as hinted at by @PeterShor could be one of these kramer.co.uk/Stable-Pasture/Stable-Arena/Mucking-Out/…
– KJO
2 days ago
dragged through a hedge backwards is a common expression and pulled through an auger hole is highly likely as a similar euphemism. I cant think of a suitable "soot rake" meaning unless it was a local type. Where did he hail from? What did he do? unintentionally sounds a bit like cotton eye joe phrasing?
– KJO
2 days ago
dragged through a hedge backwards is a common expression and pulled through an auger hole is highly likely as a similar euphemism. I cant think of a suitable "soot rake" meaning unless it was a local type. Where did he hail from? What did he do? unintentionally sounds a bit like cotton eye joe phrasing?
– KJO
2 days ago
I think he's probably saying auger and soot. An auger is something that drills holes, but here it is certainly a euphemism for another kind of hole that also starts with a. And similarly, I suspect he's saying soot rake, where soot is a euphemism for a different kind of substance that you might rake and that starts with sh.
– Peter Shor
2 days ago
I think he's probably saying auger and soot. An auger is something that drills holes, but here it is certainly a euphemism for another kind of hole that also starts with a. And similarly, I suspect he's saying soot rake, where soot is a euphemism for a different kind of substance that you might rake and that starts with sh.
– Peter Shor
2 days ago
The nearest modern term to soot rake is ash/coke/coal rake a heavy lump of flat iron with a long handle. It is possible that cooks or chimney sweeps may have had in the past a variant for raking out soot. Or as hinted at by @PeterShor could be one of these kramer.co.uk/Stable-Pasture/Stable-Arena/Mucking-Out/…
– KJO
2 days ago
The nearest modern term to soot rake is ash/coke/coal rake a heavy lump of flat iron with a long handle. It is possible that cooks or chimney sweeps may have had in the past a variant for raking out soot. Or as hinted at by @PeterShor could be one of these kramer.co.uk/Stable-Pasture/Stable-Arena/Mucking-Out/…
– KJO
2 days ago
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dragged through a hedge backwards is a common expression and pulled through an auger hole is highly likely as a similar euphemism. I cant think of a suitable "soot rake" meaning unless it was a local type. Where did he hail from? What did he do? unintentionally sounds a bit like cotton eye joe phrasing?
– KJO
2 days ago
I think he's probably saying auger and soot. An auger is something that drills holes, but here it is certainly a euphemism for another kind of hole that also starts with a. And similarly, I suspect he's saying soot rake, where soot is a euphemism for a different kind of substance that you might rake and that starts with sh.
– Peter Shor
2 days ago
The nearest modern term to soot rake is ash/coke/coal rake a heavy lump of flat iron with a long handle. It is possible that cooks or chimney sweeps may have had in the past a variant for raking out soot. Or as hinted at by @PeterShor could be one of these kramer.co.uk/Stable-Pasture/Stable-Arena/Mucking-Out/…
– KJO
2 days ago