"Snowy's chance in hell"

Steelsong Strong

The Steelstrong are a proud people who live in a harsh land. The South Spiral Mountain Range is geothermally active and laden with arcane magic due to the Shattering which occurred during the Dragon War. Massive hot springs and tubs of hot mud dot the valleys between the mountains, making the sheer faces of the cliffs all the more forbidding as the paths behind a traveler seem to disappear into the volanically active wilderness.
The people who live in this land are a hardy lot, and prone to a dry sense of pragmatic humor. A set of interesting slang terms have arisen that are unique to the culture of the Steelsong living near Steelsong Mountain. Some of the more colorful terms?
"Snowy's chance in hell" - a term of ill luck, this phrase refers to a story about a large hot pool in the south valley commonly refferred to as the "rainbow of hell" and the familiar of a new elven immigrant family, a snowy owl who one day decided to take a quick dip in the hot spring. He quickly discovered that the pool was scalding hot, and when the unfortunate familiar tried to fly away, it found it's feathers were all falling out and it was no longer able to fly. The unfortunate creature drowned in the hot pool and the phrase "he hasn't Snowy's chance in hell" was born as an expression of extreme ill-luck and lack of common sense.
"Damien's bath" - refers to a bubbling hot mudhole. Damien Steelsong was notorious for spending long hours working the lava fields, building dykes and channels to direct lava away from townships and fields needed for grazing and growing crops. He wife of 200 years often complained that when he came in from the fields he looked like he had "bathed in one of those mud holes" near the edge of the capital city, Mountain's Edge. The mudholes became known as "Damien's bath" or more simply "the baths".
"Stink of sweet leek" - the green crops in the Steelsong Mountain area were grown in soil which contained an excessive amount of sulfur in the soil from the ash spewed by local volcanos. The high sulfur content of the soil caused any allium crops grown in it to take on a sharp, bitter note, and a pronounced sulfuric overtone to traditional allium notes. This bitterness was sarcastically referred to as "sweet" and the sulfuric smell was referred to as "stink" giving rise to the term "the stink of sweet leek".
"hole in my/your/the roof" - the "glass roof" or defensive system that protected Steelsong settlements from airborne volcanic debris depended on an accurate location of the areas to be protected. Sometimes small debris would make it through to the defended areas, or people would settle into an area which had not been registered or taxes had not been paid for the property. When debris fell in these areas, it was referred to as having "a hole in the roof".