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On and off the farm: some phrases straight out of the barnyard Get all your ducks in a row: Make all the preparations needed to do something; get everything organized The earliest known written citation is in The Plaindealer in 1889: “In the meantime the Democrats are getting their ducks in a row, and their ticket is promised to be very strong ”
How many farmers “never left home”? : r farming - Reddit I jumped into farm work as soon as I was grown and the thing I found was that every employer was a kid that didn't leave home PART of that is learning the skills from a younger age, and part of it is that a farm holds equity that most families don't have
When Pigs Fly and Other Barnyard Idioms : Hard Row to Hoe Definition - something that is difficult to do or deal with The row in this expression is a line of planted crops, and the word hoe means “to work with a tool with a thin flat blade on a long handle to cultivate, weed, or loosen the earth around plants ”
Weeding Out the Bad: Life Lessons from Summers on My . . . Summers spent at my grandparents’ farm in Arkansas taught this city girl the meaning of the saying, “A hard row to hoe!” Long before the days of weed whackers and chemical sprays, there was only one way to get rid of the pesky weeds that threatened the survival of the fruit bearing plants—with a hoe and lots of hard work