"paghat" wrote in message
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To root for a sweet potato, you hold it upward in your hand & cry out
in
its presence: "Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY."

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Colloquial phrases are difficult in an international forum. Around here
the verb "to root" has a different meaning, it's hard to put it
delicately but ...hmmm... well if it applied to sweet potatos you might
think your hamster was also at risk.

David