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From: Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: Possible Old Wheeze
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:48:23 -0400
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On 11 Aug 2022 16:24:55 GMT, Paul Carmichael <wibbleypants@gmail.com>
wrote:

>El Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:00:59 -0700, Jerry Friedman escribió:
>
>> On Wednesday, August 10, 2022 at 4:05:32 PM UTC-6, dklei...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>> I used the expression "push baby chicks into the creek" as an example
>>> of bad behavior. I was meet with blank stares. To me this trope(?) is a
>>> homely old cliche. But even Google doesn't know it.
>>> 
>>> Anybody else heard it?
>> 
>> Never in all my born days.
>
>
>What's a "creek"?

Same as a "crick".  

In Indianapolis (Indiana), where I grew up, the "crick" pronunciation
was used to describe the waterway, but there was a housing area that
one ran through called "Williams Creek" and the second word was
pronounceed to rhyme with "reek".

It would not be unusual for someone to say they lived in Williams
Creek next to the crick.

-- 

Tony Cooper - Orlando Florida

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