Sayings and their geographic areas

[Jeunemaitre]

I used to hear the phrase quite commonly used when I was living in Massachusetts, but haven't heard it or used it since moving to the DC area. Also, never heard it in college in upstate New York, but that was probably because we were college kids who were too cool to use cheesy sayings like that. We preffered to make up our own. One that I remember from my days in MA though was "tough cookies." I don't think I've heard that anywhere else though.