Confusing Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, as theFlu has done, will get you stabbed in the eye in both locales, even if Ricky has been made deputy Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (seriously, look it up)
Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia are THE SAME THING. seriously.
besides, you're bound to get stabbed in the eye no matter what you do, in any of three locales... but I'll get it twice for confusing things, I guess
It's not a Newfism at all. I grew up there and never heard that phrase once in 27 years.
Everything else you - theFlu - just said about NL and NS merely proves that you've never been to either one, or in fact probably ever even heard about them except for on the map of Canada you had to read those eight times you did grade six Social Studies.
I distinctly remember seeing this man in an instructional video. I've been partially educated by this man. What the hell was he in? This is going to drive me crazy.