The Magnificent Seven

     

The Magnificent Seven1960

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 Western film in which Mexican peasant villagers oppressed by bandits hire a group of seven gunfighters to defend them. more »


Harry Luck:
There comes a time to turn Mother's picture to the wall and get out!

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  • davidw.63041
    davidw.63041
    I am a southerner. I heard long ago that "Turn Mother's Picture to the Wall" was something families from the south did when a family member had gone up north to fight with the enemy during the civil war. It came to be commonly used as an expression meaning "time to forget about that and move on." 
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  • David H Worrell Jr
    David H Worrell Jr
    I have heard that the expression originated during the civil war. Some southern men went north to fight with the aboloshinists. When they returned home, the family would turn the mother's picture to the wall so she would not have to look down on the traiterous son 
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