Almost every day, each of us gets in a car, train, bus, or on a bike or boat in order to get somewhere. We rely on transportation. Methods of transportation have affected our history, our economy, and our culture. They have even influenced the way we speak. The idioms listed below all came from a certain mode of transportation. Try to guess the origin and the meaning of each of these idioms. Write your guesses in the space provided.

Idiom	Meaning and Origin
Dooryard visit, or dooryard call
Like a train of cars, or going to beat the cars
Potato bug
Rimwracked
Sandpaper the anchor
Take the wind out of his sails
Stem to stern
Corduroy; To hit the corduroy
To find a hole in the beach
A yes-marm
Baggin' the bowline
Balled up
Coiled his ropes.
Luff and bear away
Mud Season
One lunger

*Idioms and origins from Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, & Wazzats, by John Gould. Camden: Down East Magazine. 1975.

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