"Well, knock me over with a feather duster!" What are your favorite sayings?

[Jean in Newcastle]

Ds10's latest favoriite, "Well, butter me up and call me toast!"

[Remudamom]

That really burns my grits.

I'm going to snatch you bald-headed.

Shut my mouth.

Run away, run away!

I fart in your general direction.

And anything else from Monty Python.

Bertie Wooster:

All this is due to fish, you say?

Hellooooooo Bertie!

Cha!

One is shocked, one raises the eyebrows.

You namby pamby, I will beat you to jelly.

[GothicGyrl]

When DH plays his games, he says "Holy Mother of Pearl" (playing a game where the bad guys gang up on you) and it drives me crazy so I ask him "Why can't you just say "OH SH**? Means the same thing?"

:D

[Amy loves Bud]

You'll bust your nugget.

Wishin' ain't gettin'. (obviously this is a favorite!)

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes clean to the bone.

ETA: What a mell of a hess!

[MichelleWI]

"Good night in the morning!"

I used to say it often, as an exclamation of surprise or frustration. My boy was four years old and would say, in the cutest voice, "Good nite in da mo'nin, Momma!" Adorable!

[Tracey in TX]

"Have mercy..."

"We're in high cotton now, boy"

I'm not actually from the south, so love to imitate a southern drawl and use all my daddy's little cliches :)

[mellifera]

"Bother," said Pooh.

Parts of cats!

Game over man! (Whenever the timer goes off or the dryer buzzes, etc.)

One dh likes but hardly ever gets to use: You gotta drop a rat turd a mighty long way to break a two by four.

[newlifemom]

"Holy, dumb as dirt" is my dh latest when someone does something, well. . .really dumb.

Pam

[CookieMonster]

Gag me with a credit card and put me on layaway.

[Remudamom]

From the Pink Panther-

I would like to buy a damburger.

I think I got myself a pretty good deal.

Good one.

Cat in the Hat-

I can't believe you just whizzed on my taco.

(We are too easily influenced by movies.)

And from my horse tapes-

Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard.

As gentle as possible, as firm as necessary.

Come on Precious.

You're being a "Betty".

[Michelle T]

along with "Oy vey es mir" if I'm really worked up.

I also like a saying my MIL from Ireland used:

"He'd slit your belly open if he thought you'd swallowed a penny"

That's pretty cheap!
Michelle T

[Mrs. H.]

Some of mine:

"He/She/It looked like it fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down."

"Wantin' ain't gettin'." I know, already been used, but we love it.

"Tastes so good it'll make your tongue want to slap your brains out."

"Tastes so good it'll make you want to slap yo' momma."

"Bless your/her/his heart." This phrase is often used in the South to hide an insult, such as "Bless her heart, her cooking could kill a horse."

"Delicious and nutritious"

"Looks like you swallowed a hundred dollars and got it back in pennies." Dh is a freckled fellow, and the dc are following suit.

Some of dh's (I take no responsibility for these):

"I see said the blind man to his one-eyed sweetheart."

"So clean it shines like a diamond in a goat's butt." (you asked!)

"It's colder than a well-diggers' end in Idaho."

"I'm so hungry I could end the South end of a North-bound possum."

"My stomach thinks by throat's been cut."

"My stomach is rubbing a blister on my backbone."

Yes, we are from the South.

:D:D:D

[JudoMom]

That'll go over like a pregnant pole vaulter.

[CookieMonster]

That'll go over like a pregnant pole vaulter.


LOL! :lol:

I'm gonna hafta use this one now!

[Jennay]

"Oh, fer cryin' out loud!" is uttered oftern around here :)

[Fourmother]

Two favorites from my father:

"Get out of the bed. You're burning day light!"

"You'll always have bad luck when you keep your things under foot."

[CookieMonster]

Stick a fork in me, I'm done. :glare:

[Colleen]

nt

[percytruffle]

I'm off like a dirty shirt
He's happy as a clam at high tide
He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer
He's not the sharpest tool in the shed
Chowdah head (said in Maine accent)
I don't think they're playing with a full deck
Smoother than a smelt

[Soph the vet]

When someone is slightly injured...
"You'll be fine, it's a long way from your heart!"

When I lived in the South it was...

"You see what I'm sayin'"

[Danestress]

of a fiddle factory.

My Mother always said this and I guess it stuck. Or maybe we know a lot of people with a lot of nerve. I have no idea, really, what it means. I guess if you were to work in a fiddle factory, you might need good nerves, but the factory itself? Still, I say it all the time.

[Daisy]

You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

We need an attitude of gratitude.

What in the world? (my 6yo DS is now saying this with almost my exact inflection).

That's a corker.

Run, Forrest, Run (b/c my child does everything soooo slowly).

And I tend to spout off maxims, rhymes and Scripture randomly through-out my day. Must have been all that memory work as a child.

[Sandy in Indy]

Don't get your panties in a wad.

For cryin' out loud in a bucket. (Why we cry in a bucket I don't know, but my dad said this a lot when we played cards.)

He/She's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Her elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.

The lights are on, but nobody's home.

I can dress you up, but I can't take you out.

[Doran]

We have a lot of expressions around here --

From my parents (bless their hearts!):

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!
Oh, Fiddle faddle!
Aw, horse sh*t!
Son, you'd lose your head if it wasn't attached
What in the Sam Hill are you doing?!!
If you don't stop that I'm gonna tan your hide!
You're acting like a one legged goat with his p*cker caught in the door (my father was famous for making up ridiculous sayings like this...each more colorful than the next. We call them "Bob-isms" after my father, Bob, who is Southern to the core.)


My own:

Who peed in your cornflakes?
First day with the new feet?
Is it my imagination, or was I talking?
Who made you Queen?
S/he's almost as exciting as a box of rocks.
We're off like a herd of turtles
The lights are on but nobody's home
Holy dirty dishes (or whatever noun applies), Batman!


From the Bill Cosby albums of my youth:

That's it, everybody outa the pool!
We used to have a rhinoceros.
All Right...who put the bullet in the furnace?!
You're gettin' silly. Go to bed!
What is your name, child....And don't lie to me because you live here and I'll find out who you are!
Willyoustoptouchingme?!


Doran -- who has enjoyed this little nostalgic trip :001_smile:

[Cornerstone Classical]

Most of our comes from Napolian Dynamite...

"Gosh"

When it supper time...

"Come get some dinner, you big fat lard!"

"Give me some on your tots" No, "Go find you own."

[Jean in Newcastle]

Some more I thought of:

I'm busier than a hound dog with fleas.

He'd argue the hind leg off a donkey. (said of Ds10 who might have a healthy law career ahead of him!"

[GothicGyrl]

Ahhhh, Bill Cosby.. some of the things I say are from him, but I can't say here because it would look like this: ^%$%## Argh ^%$## :)

[Jenny in Atl]

Colder than a witch's t*t (my Mom's :-0)
That's just flithy dirty, Fixin to, honey darlin' (my MIL's expressions)
Stop that grab assing (my dad's)
Like white on rice
rat's ear, I'm sweatin' like a stuck pig (DH's)
you make my eye's twitch (From French Kiss)
I’m finer than frog hair split four ways (BIL's)

[Karenciavo]

"I prefer not to." ~ Bartleby
Capisce, as in, "I suggest you unload the dishwasher now, capisce?"

[Cornerstone Classical]

I’m finer than frog hair split four ways (BIL's)


LOVE IT!:smilielol5::smilielol5:

[Amy loves Bud]

Fixin to

Ummm, that's not a saying, that's just normal talking!? :blushing:

[Lorna in the boonies]

Dh's --
That'll make a puppy pull a freight train.
Finer than frog's hair split four ways. (I see he's not the only one!)
Can't died, and we buried him yesterday.
Slicker than snot on a doorknob.
Colder than a well-digger's butt.
Tighter than a tick on a dog's back.
I want God to come down and kiss earth, and I want to get caught in the middle of the smack. (says this when he's preaching)


Me --
You're killing me, Smalls.
I wish I had 12 kids, so I could kill the ones I've got and not miss them. (this is only said *to* my kids, not *about* them!)
I never promised you a rose garden.
I never promised you fair.
This isn't Burger King. You can't have it your way.
That's an awfully strong emotion to waste on an inanimate object. (said when my children say they 'hate' something)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Pull up/put on your big girl panties and get the job done.

[Mom2jnb]

My husband always says:

"I'm full as a tick"

I had never heard it until I met him and I laugh all the time when he says it.
He is from the south and I am from MI. He says it is common down there.
He has a few others but that is the one that came to my mind when I read the OP.

Alison

[Mrs. Readsalot]

I say this to both my dh and my ds.

[Eliana]

"From your lips to G-d's ears"
"Oy, Gevalt!"

And, from my Dad after we all got into the car: "Okay, everybody! Doors fastened, seatbelts locked!"

[Jenny in Atl]

"From your lips to G-d's ears"
"Oy, Gevalt!"

And, from my Dad after we all got into the car: "Okay, everybody! Doors fastened, seatbelts locked!"

Have not heard those since leaving NY in 78'

[Miss Peregrine]

My DH says "Hotter than a popcorn fart." Whatever that means. :confused:

He also says "Son of a Buckenheimer" which irritates the snot out of me.

I recently heard my niece say "Oh MyLanta"

[nancypants]

This one is from my husband and he got it from his "hillbilly" Dad who I'm sure got it from the hills of Tennessee...

"You tell 'em cabbage, you're the one with the green head!" What it really means? The world may never know. It just means, "You said it!" or "Tell it like it is!" :D

[Sugarfoot]

When the kids are hungry, dh says, "Fix yourself a friggin' quesadil-la!" (from Napolean Dynamite.)

My grandmother used to say, "If I'd known you were comin', I'd a baked a cake!"

DS says, "Blast it!" a lot, after Luke Skywalker:)

[mcconnellboys]

My current favorite is something my mil used to say: When that boy gets something in his head, it ain't in his toes (because it is SO my younger son, LOL.....)

Oh, and another of hers: {They} don't have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of.... (for those who like to put on airs, but really have nothing)

Regena

[debbiec]

My husband has forbid me to use any because I get them all mixed up ~

[Angela in TN]

I don't think these are really "sayings" but they are my catch phrases:

When I'm upset= "Good Night" emphasis on both words

When I answer the phone & know who's calling= "What Up?"

That is all.

[Angela in TN]

My husband always says:

"I'm full as a tick"

I had never heard it until I met him and I laugh all the time when he says it.
He is from the south and I am from MI. He says it is common down there.
He has a few others but that is the one that came to my mind when I read the OP.

Alison
!
I'm in TN and have never heard it BUT I may start using it:tongue_smilie:

[Mekanamom]

Eh- most of my favorite ones are not appropriate to either write down here or utter in front of my children. I hardly ever get a chance to use them. :001_rolleyes:

DH and I go around quoting Monty Python and Eddie Izzard a lot, though.

[Elaine]

You'll bust your nugget

:smilielol5: I am literally crying at this one, Amy. Are we talking the upper nugget or the lower nugget?;)

[Alenee]

A closed mouth gathers no foot.



I love it!!!:lol:

[Elaine]

A few of my favorites are:

You know why you're alive? You're alive because I let you live!

Are your hands painted on?

Good grief!

From the movie Lonesome Dove:

Well go if we're goin'!

I guess you go where I say go, girl. (My husband says this to me)



From my mother:
Well paint me red and set me on fire! I think that means that she was shocked that we actually used common sense.

Your sister's butt!

Your grandmother's foot. (These two take the place of curse words.);)


When we first moved to NC, I heard someone say, "Look at that rain, it's like a cow peein' on a flat rock." Oh.My.Lord! I fell in love with it immediately. This past January we were in Florida with my parents and one night it began to rain. Hard rain. I exclaimed, "Look at that rain, it's like a cow peein' on a flat rock!" My father almost fell on the floor he was laughing so hard. I try to use that one at every possible opportunity.

[Alenee]

"I was flabbergasted!"

Now I say it all the time...:)

[Virginia Dawn]

Me:
I didn't ask you if you wanted to.
Somebody's gotta do it, it might as well be you.
Nobody promised you a rose garden.
What do I look like, chopped liver?

dh:
Call him butter, cause he's on a roll.

dad:
You die if you don't et.

[pixelroper]

Dumber than a bag of hammers.

[JFS in IL]

First - to complaining kids...

"This is NOT a restaurant"

and (to whiny kids)

"That is why it is called schoolWORK and not schoolPLAY."

[RoughCollie]

You are barking up the wrong tree.
I'm as busy as a one-armed paperhanger.
He's been hit with the ugly stick.
He is dumber than a stump.
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Fish or cut bait
You got the short end of the stick.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
You are a sight for sore eyes.
Don't just sit (stand) there like a bump on a log.
You're getting too big for your britches.
I'll be ready in two shakes (of a lamb's tail).
These are scarce as hen's teeth.
Gimme some sugar.
I'll be back directly.
Lord willing and the creek don't rise.
Can't dance, and it's too wet to plow.
Don't go having a hissy fit.
When your Daddy comes home, he's gonna have a conniption.
I would give my eyeteeth for a ________.
I don't trust him any further than I can throw him.
She can't carry a tune in a bucket.
Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Go piss up a rope.
Take a long walk off a short pier.
Two bricks shy of a full load.
A few cards shy of a full deck.
Tighter than a tick (miserly)
Running around like a chicken with your head cut off
You don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
That dog won't hunt.
You don't have the sense God gave a goose.

And DS's favorite "Gotta go drain my lizard." (I love that one.)

[nmoira]

... as the actress said to the Bishop (as an aside)
Revenge is always on purpose.
Billions of bilious blue barnacles
Narf!

[Robin in Tx]

I may be some dumb, but I'm not plumb dumb :)

Robin

[AprilTN]

RoughCollie, are you originally from New England? Because with all those sayings you might be from my neck of the woods!


Grinnin' like a possum eatin' sawbriers! (that's a really big smile)

This is a goat ropin' (when things are just out of control)

Quit strawbossin' (when someone is bossing you around but not helping)

Cain't never could do nothin' (when someone says they "can't")

She's got one foot in the grave (someone really old)

I didn't take you to raise! (I'm not your mother)

[FlockOfSillies]

Oh, for cryin' out loud.
Bother that!
I'm not used to being this close to where I'm at. (actual quote of a dear, but ditzy, friend many years ago)
That's a nice sweater; what are you going to do, wear it? (dh's grandma said this once at Christmas)
Buckle up, Buttercup/Buddy Boy.
Your shirt is not a napkin!
I'm shocked! And saddened!
Ayup. (got that here)
That's my pair o' pennies. (I use that a lot here, not IRL.)
Not happening!
You're scaring me. (I sing this one.)
Fabulous.

From "Finding Nemo"...
Swim away!
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...

Nee!
And out came... a lizard! (Bill Cosby on the arrival of his firstborn)


Annnnd... I've forgotten the rest. But I'll remember them just as soon as I hit "Submit Reply."

[Jenny in Atl]

Sounds like Thanksgiving dinner at my in-laws
:D

[RoughCollie]

Nope, I'm from the South, but live in Mass. I grew up with a Mom who was very well read and used all those sayings regularly. I figure she got them all from her books because she lived in only 2 places: Germany and the South. A lot of those are Southern, too.

We say, "She's got one foot in a grave and the other on a banana peel".

RoughCollie, are you originally from New England? Because with all those sayings you might be from my neck of the woods!

[FlockOfSillies]

First day with the new feet?
Love this one! :lol:

[j.griff]

Mine:
when dd or dh say "God!" in reply to something I've done or said. "Nope, it's just me, mom/honey, but you can call me CAPtain if you must use a title."
When I'm confuzzled by something or just REALLY ticked off at something, "I've got 3 letters for you!"
When children are whining at me, "I don't feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for ME!" (with a laugh)
"Woof."
"Don't TELL me!" (as in,don't tell me what to do)
"Severiously!" (means I'm severely serious)


DH:
"Some people's kids!" (said while shaking his head at some idiot driver)
"Did you see that frog? I just stepped on it." (if you don't understand that one, too bad cause I ain't explaining :D )

[KarenNC]

Ye gods and little fishes.......


(as well as lots of Monty Python and Eddie Izzard :D)

[Jenny in Atl]

I Forgot,

Nutrish before delish (and I have no idea if that's how it's spelled)

[Pam "SFSOM" in TN]

That was fun, and now you're done. (I want this on my tombstone, I say it so much.)

Do what you have to, then you can do what you want to.

Geezopete!

Holy Cow! (I say this ALL the time. *sigh*)

[Karin]

I probably use more of these than anyone I know, but put to the test like this and my brain is freezing.

Some I use are
That's dumber than dirt
Stupider than a fried fly (I'm not sure if I made that one up or heard it somewhere)
It's had the biscuit (that means something is totally done in and needs to be tossed).
I bet you a dollar to a doughnut.
(when waiting for slow kids) Come on, I'm getting old!


I also habitually mix a few up, like
Fifty cents of one and half a dozen of the other (it's supposed to be 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.)

And many others, old and new. Sometimes I come up with ones I haven't used in decades, or ones I've picked up in different places. But this is like when family asks for hints for gifts for me--my mind freezes.

[WTMCassandra]

"You are not the center of the universe." said to the child who needs to hear it.

[Hoggirl]

She's uglier than a homemade fence.
She's stuck on him like a duck on a June bug.
Good night nurse.
She's so vanilla (meaning, "Plain Jane"/boring)

[Blue Hen]

Here are a couple I didn't see posted.

My Dad's favorite was:
"I've had an elegant sufficiency any more would be an overabundancy" He always said this at the end of a meal.

My MIL always said:
"Oh, if I had known you were coming I would have thrown your name in the dinner pot." Yea, we never told her we were coming for dinner cause we didn't want to eat her cooking. It was soooo bad.

My mom always said:
"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

[cin]

That'll go over like a pregnant pole vaulter.

:smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5: I can't wait to see the expression on DHs face when I use that one....

[kdeno]

Me: I need to get off the computer
DS7: Not the Well Trained Mind Board :-) :lol::tongue_smilie:

[cin]

I have a bad mouth, as you will soon see :D Most of these have never been said in front of the children. They usually just hear things such as NOW! WHAT did you say to me? And I'm sorry; I can only do 25 things at a time.

My personal favorites are:

Tighter than a frog's a$$
Get in, shut up and hang on :auto:
Oh $hit we're all going to die. (this is from a Harrison Ford movie, the title escapes me)
Dumber than a rock
Sure, Fine, No Problem (Murphy Brown...one of her many secretaries).
And 2 classics... Bull*hit, and Whatever

[LadyNancy]

Save the earth - it's the only planet with chocolate.


It's great to have a friend to grow old with. You go first.


Some days are a total waste of makeup.

[nrg]

Make like a baby and head out
Have fun, get smart
What Ho!

and lots of other things posted here earlier.

[*anj*]

A dog that will bring a bone will carry one away.

All the world's queer my dear, except me and thee.
And sometimes even thee.

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

A fair is a place where you buy cotton candy.

This is not a diner!

Dh, while waiting for kids: "While we're young!"
Dh, if anyone says "I'm coming": "So's Christmas!"

[HeatherH]

My favorite Southern one:

(when speaking of something that makes no sense)
Now that dog won't hunt!

My favorite kid one:

I can't carry it! I'm full of hands!

[Laurel T.]

Now that dog won't hunt!

Aww, now, this one totally makes sense. I have never said it myself, but down in South Alabama I hear it often.

Laurel T.

[Laurel T.]

Instead of "oh my" or "my goodness" we say "Gee Minnelli" or "Liza Minnellli." I have no idea why.

This one is attributed to my 86 yo grandmother. I would never say it, but I laugh when she does "opinions are like {umm lets just say bottoms} everybody has one and they all stink."

Laurel T.

[Karen sn]

From my Grandmother, "So what if you don't have shoes - at least you have feet."
From old southern ladies when things are good - We're walking in high cotton.
And jokingly with dogs, kids, and others - I'm gonna beat you like a red headed step child.
That must have cost a pretty penny.
If you wanna dance, ya gotta pay the fiddler.
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.

[Peek a Boo]

Quote:
Originally Posted by JudoMom
That'll go over like a pregnant pole vaulter.
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I can't wait to see the expression on DHs face when I use that one....

I am literally LOL at this one, and for the same reason!!!
i think he'll also like "Hotter than a popcorn fart." :)

I'm looking forward to trying out "Oh MyLanta" lol.
Get In Shut Up and hang on will absolutely be a favorite!!

The only one dh uses that i haven't seen yet is
"You can't sling a dead cat w/o hitting a [liquor store, tree, whatever there's a LOT of in an area]"

and our school motto that is posted on the wall:
Life is Tough --it's Tougher if you're stupid.

"No matter where you go, there you are"

Better to be pissed off than pissed on. -that gets used a lot too.


--------
we do a LOT --a TON!-- of movie quotes;
entire discussions are usually phrases adapted from movies and melded together.
"Tis just a Flesh Wound!"

You're killing me Smalls. --yup. got that one, lol. want some chaw?

Princess Bride

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Careful! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQ7Y2alDxI]

any John Wayne one, Wah-hah!

Tim the Toolman grunt [I]--even the 2yo and my 4yodd can do this.

if we break something "Things in this room don't react well to hitting the floor/ slamming against the wall" [said in a thick Sean Connery accent]

"You are now entering...... the _____ ________"

and kinda like 'What a mell of a hess!', dh has taken to cussing in pig latin, lol.
"ammit-day, im-Jay!" [in his best Bones voice]

anything from Star Trek or Star Wars is fair game. I never knew why he called the kids "plabneesters" till we watched the old Star Trek episode w/ the Yangs and the Coms --they pull out the flag, and the pledge is garbled. The beginning sounds like "EEE Plabneesters..."

lately the kids have been breaking out into the Potter Puppet Pals when we're just waiting or doing something routine... they're getting scary good at it too....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

Holy Blank, Blank Man!! [Sky High]

----------------
step on a duck --pull my finger :)

[Karen sn]

[)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[/QUOTE]

From the Princess Bride? I keep hearing the Spainard's voice.

Another from that movie - same guy - "My name is Anigo Montoya, you killed my fater, prepare to die."

And of course....."As you wish" as he's falling down the hill (Wesley) after she pushed him.

[*anj*]

and our school motto that is posted on the wall:
Life is Tough --it's Tougher if you're stupid.


That's great. We have one like it:
"Looks like you'd better start practicing six little words:
'Do
you
want
fries
with
that?'"

[Karen sn]

{They} don't have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of.... (for those who like to put on airs, but really have nothing)

Regena


I say this about my own pathetic finances.......

[Miss Peregrine]

Just remembered one I use...

"That's Coolidge, Rita!"
( Does this date me?)

[Plaid Dad]

Dumb as a box of hair. Which is particularly funny because my dw's grandmother actually owns a box of hair - all the "first curls" from the family babies.

May God bless and keep [him]...far away from us! Sometimes we will just shorten this to "a blessing for the czar" with the appropriate eye roll or raised eyebrow. (It's from Fiddler on the Roof.)

My mom was a font of these kinds of sayings, which she got from her dad.

It's better than a kick in the teeth.
More [whatever] than you can shake a stick at.
Better a louse in the sauerkraut than no meat at all.

My other favorite is the way my sil refers to the rural county beyond their suburban subdivision: Out where Jesus lost his sandals.

[Peek a Boo]

May God bless and keep [him]...far away from us! Sometimes we will just shorten this to "a blessing for the czar" with the appropriate eye roll or raised eyebrow. (It's from [I]Fiddler on the Roof.


LOL! we have a similar tradition-- if we encounter someone particularly witchy while we're out and about, we just look at each other and hum/sing the theme from Wizard of Oz --the one they play everytime teh wicked witch appears on scene, hee hee.

and your post reminded me of another:
"out in BFE" -- or Bum F*** Egypt. never quite figgered out where that came from, but i remember hearing it A LOT when we supposedly lived out in BFE :)

[percytruffle]

Better a louse in the sauerkraut than no meat at all.

And all this time I just thought they were caraway seeds....;)

[kalanamak]

I'm glad I don't have your nerve in my tooth (Are you Being Served)

Its enough to curl your hair (my mother)

Et up with dumbass (Texas slang)

Couldn't pour (liquid of your choice) from a boot if the instructions were written on the bottom. (common in Kansas)

Methinks the lady doth protestest too much (William S)

Home is where when you have to go there, they have to take you (Frost)

Fools names and fools faces often seen in public places.

Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations (aka, Gold mine, gold spoon, gold cure.....an old treatment for rich alcoholics).

From the French: in the fall of birds, the evil lies in the ground.

[mom42terrificgirls]

Right now it's "Mother Bear!" And then my kids reply, "Had a duck!" I also have a favorite (I think it's Turkish) saying that my friend says, but I don't know what it means, so I won't post it here.

[linders]

Rather gruesome but descriptive phrase from a friend who was raised in the boonies of Texas. I love using it on my kids when they are insisting that I do something now.

Linders

[partyof5]

All from my dad, the Mainer:

Ay-uh.

Can't get thay-uh from hee-uh.

He who smelt it, dealt it! (imagine a long and eventually smelly car ride, complete with protesting kids, all in denial that the smell is theirs. Aaah, childhood... :001_huh:)

Dumb as a post.

Knock the bejeezus out of him!

[OnTheBrink]

Oh, for the love of cake!
There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Cuter than a bug's ear.
Busier than a one-armed paper hanger.
Drove all over h*ll and half of Georgia.
Dumber than a box of rocks.
I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
All over it like white on rice.
I just went through 7 circles of h*ll to ....(whatever it was that was difficult).
Lead, follow, or get out of my way!
Lord willing and the creek don't rise.
Well, isn't this a fine kettle of fish!

I'll often use these words, as well:
hootenanny
soiree
bolixed up
twitterpated

[Sharon in SC]

Where there's a will, there's a way
For Petey's sake!
We're gonna freeze our Rastafarian nay nay's! (for freezing weather)

[dirty ethel rackham]

Did you know my dad? I think you stole a few of his "vogl-isms"!

You are barking up the wrong tree.
Fish or cut bait <snip>
Don't just sit (stand) there like a bump on a log. (My 5th grade teacher, Sr. Anne, used to say this every day.)
You're getting too big for your britches.
<snip>
Don't go having a hissy fit.
I would give my eyeteeth for a ________.
I don't trust him any further than I can throw him.
She can't carry a tune in a bucket.
<snip>
Take a long walk off a short pier.
Two bricks shy of a full load.
A few cards shy of a full deck.
<snip>
Running around like a chicken with your head cut off
You don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
That dog won't hunt.
(I love that one.)

Some other more colorful Vogl-isms from dear old dad ...
If I had a dog as ugly as you, I'd shave his a$$ and make him walk backwards.
A pat on the back is only inches from a kick in the behind.
Sh!t or get off the pot.
Holy Pickles. (My dad used to say "B&llsh!t", until my then 3yo nephew told every adult he met "Grampa says 'B&llsh!t'". Dad switched to this. Years later, my brother ended up naming his dog "Pickles" after my dad, LOL!)

He put his shoes on backwards and walked forward into the past (said about people who won't change their ways.)

My sayings:'
Oh, crummybuttons (from the old Dick Van Dyke show)
Calgon, take me away!
I'm so tired (said like Madelein Kahn in Blazing Saddles)
What part of ________ don't you understand?
Well, duh!

[kalanamak]

My other favorite is the way my sil refers to the rural county beyond their suburban subdivision: Out where Jesus lost his sandals.[/quote]

Reminds me of "my mouth's drier than Gandi's flipflop" (from Keeping Up Appearances)

[BizyPenguin]

I don't want to ruffle any feathers, but...

She (or he or you) must be a half wit

Oh, for crying out loud

She (or he) is few fries short of a Happy Meal

She (or he) is not the sharpest knife in the drawer

Fiddle-lee-dee (as in "Whatever!")

Whoopty-doo (as in "Whatever!")

[Karen in CO]

From one of the kids that hangs around my house - "Wake-y Wake-y eggs and Bac-ey"

From everybody in my family - "You ain't smart enough to come in out of the rain."

In response to the phrase - "That's not fair."
"Life is a carnival not a fair"

Kind of like the phrase "Tickle me pink"
"Well, butter my biscuits!"


From my little church-lady of a Grandmother who ran moonshine during prohibition:
"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar,
but who the h*ll wants flies."

[*anj*]

Just today we had some friends here and I found myself saying the following:

"Six of one, half dozen of the other."

"You're a prince among men."

Oh, and I inherited this one from my dad:

"I haven't seen you in a month of Sundays."

[OceanBreeze]

Life's tough...and then you die.

Slower than molasses in winter.

Get a grip!

Who died and made you queen?


And while this isn't a "saying", I do find myself saying

"Hurry up, we're/you're gonna be late!" almost every day.:001_huh:

Jenelle

[*anj*]

"Good thinkin', Lincoln" (of course it sounds like "linkin'")

[mellifera]

dh: He couldn't find his a$$ with both hands. (When someone has been particularly stupid)

Me at night putting dc to bed: Go to sleep, Zoodles. (from Philadelphia Chickens)

[KidsHappen]

It was his version of Jesus Christ.

I frequently ask if I am speaking English because no one seems to hear what I say around here.

And of course, the mother's favorite, "Who ever said life was fair?" I had to keep repeating this one to myself when I was in the emergency room in extreme pain.

[Elaine]

My other favorite is the way my sil refers to the rural county beyond their suburban subdivision: Out where Jesus lost his sandals.


:smilielol5: I can't wait to use this one!

[Cornerstone Classical]

It was his version of Jesus Christ.

I frequently ask if I am speaking English because no one seems to hear what I say around here.

And of course, the mother's favorite, "Who ever said life was fair?" I had to keep repeating this one to myself when I was in the emergency room in extreme pain.

I went to a bible college so we invented "Christian Cussing" . Cheese and rice was one as well as...

Got Dandruff for---well, you know...:angelsad2: