There are a few phrases that I grew up hearing from my grandparents. They’ve not passed on, but one was- “out there on that wheel,” which meant they were riding bikes, or bicycles, which is something that all the grandkids, cousins, that’s what we did. We played outside. We rode bikes, and when they were “out there on that wheel,” tell them to slow down. Or “got the monkey on your back,” which means it was hot outside.

But my all-time favorite, which is a fond memory that my aunts and uncles have: My grandpa, my grandmother, and my grandfather, when they were watching a movie, we were told the phrase, “He carried that picture.” They come from a different era and so for them, he carried that picture. They didn’t know how to translate it into words of protagonists or antagonists, it was “he carried that picture.”

So nowadays, whenever something’s happened, like we watch Game of Thrones, and the main character, Jon Snow, he had come back, and my mom said, “What they bring him back for?” and my aunt said, “Because he carried that picture,” and we just busted out laughing. So, that is one phrase that is very significant to us.