South Shore Phrases is a series to honor some of the areas we have cached. Each description contains a colourful phrase that is reported to be used in or originated along the South Shore of Nova Scotia. All phrases were selected from the book The South Shore Phrase Book complied by Lewis J Poteet (published 1983).
Stand there swingin' on the garden gate is a phrase used to describe delaying someone's departure. - various places along the South Shore
"Don't you call me to go out and then stand there swingin' on the garden gate". Hence, to delay departure.