Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on December 16, 2012, 01:10:21 pm
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I speak French but my wife told me one, she speaks French as well, I had not heard before. Everybody knows the expression "a feather in ones cap" but here is one I like even better, I'll translate it after. In French it's "ajouter une corde à son arc", literally this translates to "adding a string to your bow".... I like it.
Any other expressions of interest out there?
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That's a neat one.. I love idioms..
Cipriano
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"Under my thumb". Meaning you have someone under your control. Comes from waaaay back in classic falconry when you wrapped the bird's jesses (ankle leashes) under your thumb and gripped tight for control.
"Waiting with bated breath". Not baited, which might imply your breath smells like last week's sushi. Again, early falconry term. When a bird attempts to leap from fist or off the perch to escape it has "bated". Not a good thing. It implies your breath has escaped.
"Fed up". Meaning that you've had enough of something and are sick of it. Again, early flaconry term. Came from when a bird is completely stuffed full of food. They lose all interest in flying or hunting, they are literally "fed up" with it.
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"Blowing smoke up someone's butt", A medical practice around the turn of the century. :D They had a machine that would pump smoke up someone's rear end, supposed to cure all kinds of illnesses. ::)
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Chihuahua or ay chihuahua mean about the same as saying, "darn." :laugh:
Cipriano
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We use expression that our neighbor thought was odd the first time they heard it. They are not from this close area and everyone else thinks it is fine to use????
We say ..."turn the light out once" or "i'm going to run to town once" or anyting that ends in "once".... Neighbors kid us that we sould do "it" just once!!!LOL
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I love the old southern expressions, such as "busier than a cat burying a turd on a tin roof" or " busier than a one legged man in a butt kickin contest". My mother in law has quite a few, our daughter was climbing the furniture once and she said " You better get down before you go ass over tea kettle". The first time I heard that one, I couldn't stop laughing for half an hour.
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You don't have enough brains to tan you own hide,granny use to tell me that all the time, I never knew what she meant,every animal has enough brain to tan it's own hide,she meant I wasn't very smart. ;) ;D Busier than a one armed paper hanger is one of faviorts also. :)
Pappy
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I heard a fellow say he was going to do something "just for shits and giggles" ...... which struck me as two activities that really shouldn't be related..... :(
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Southern for yes it will for sure: "That dog will hunt."
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got a saying when there's lot's of one thing around or a big family, " ya can't swing a dead cat in this town without hiting one", Bub
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I've overheard people talking about me from time to time. Once I heard someone say, "He talks so much he sunburnt his tongue."
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i heard a guy at work today say"if it don't make dollars,it don't make sense".
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i heard a guy at work today say"if it don't make dollars,it don't make sense".
Interesting quote, but it sure don't apply to bowmaking.
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The soldier moans his fate, and says, "My dogs are barking!"
Most likely he just finished a 25 mile road march. :)
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"Blowing smoke up someone's butt", A medical practice around the turn of the century. :D They had a machine that would pump smoke up someone's rear end, supposed to cure all kinds of illnesses. ::)
I think I saw one of those in our senators office....... ::)
Wayne
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Southern expressions, when someone leaves, or you are leaving, you say You take are now. Colder than a well diggers a$$ in January. Slicker than snot on a door knob! Puts me in the mind of...... meaning something, or someone reminds you of something, such as, he puts me in the mind of an old coon with no teeth, trying to eat a ear of seed corn! Deader, than a door nail. Don't make me no never mind. Take your shoes off, and sit a spell. Make yourself to home. Some not just Southern; Six to one, half a dozen to the other. Walk the straight and narrow, I'll do ya like Paddy did the drum! And my own, referring to my financial status, If it cost a nickel to fly around the world, I couldn't afford to get to the airport! Or my Cousin's description of a nice thick ham steak, in Ga., when he was holding it off of his plate, and looking it over, and the waitress asked if anything was wrong, he said, No, it's just that this is the first time I ordered ham, and got a piece that wasn't so thin that it only had one side to it! :o Now that is THIN! Anywho, there are more...... ;) I think we could do this all night. One last one my dad used to say, when he was finished doing something, or done fishing, and ready to go home, he would say, Well, I think it's time to call in the dogs, pi$$ on the fire, and go home. There are others that can't be on here, .... ::) >:D
Wayne
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A fellow that is chasing after a gal, or someone that takes to something by being totally absorbed, like primative archery is said to be "like a hound on a gut wagon"!
Robby
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Your my horse if you never win a race. :) Champagne appetite with a beer bill fold. :)
A day late and a dollar short. :) Only cost a little more to go first class. :)
Pappy
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These are great, keep 'me coming.
If its worth doing, it's worth doin right!
My grandpa used say about a light rain, "ah it's just spittin on ya!"
Scott
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Lock stock and barrel.....hook line and sinker.....the whole shebang.....that's all she wrote.....its not over till the fat lady sings.....spitting in the wind.....older than moses.....kicking a dead horse.....you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.....slower than mallassas......when it comes to money i cant afford to pay attention.
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One of those last ones reminded me of this story. When I had my audition to join the Aggie band (Texas A&M) I was really nervous because I'm honestly not a very good musician and I played just down right awful and by the time I finished Colonel Brewer (band director) looked at me and said "You don't believe in kicking a dead horse, do you son?" and after a short pause said "See you in August" I sat there really confused for a while after that. It wasn't until later that I learned that I didn't have to be good just loud
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Broker than a wet mule. :) Don't worry about the mule just load the wagon. :) Don't get the cart in front of the horse. :) Hanging in like a hair in a bisquite. :)
Hanging in there like a rusty fish hook. :) Don't care what color my hairs turns as long as it don't turn loose. :) Hungry as a hostage[Per Jon] ;) ;D So hungry I could eat the south end of a north bound Jack ass. :) Eat the buggers out of a dead man's nose. ??? :-X :-X [another one Per. Jon.] that boy stays hungry. :)
If I had you money I would burn Mine. :) I Hit the ground like a sack full of crap. :)
Pappy
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You can call me anything just dont call me late for dinner! >:D cold as a two dog night! ::)
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Grandad would reply to a question of "do you have any....?" "We have everything , from a babies fart to a clap of thunder!" Essentially meaning we don't have much but we have what we need! good way to look at life and not get caught up in materialism.
Another favorite is " If you kept your mouth shut, no one would know you were stupid!" actuall comes from Shakespeare "Better to be thought a fool and remain silent ,than to open your mouth and prove it"
Great uncles on Barrie Island 'or Manitoulin Island would have to pick stones from the fields every year as they came to the surface with the frost.If they decided they would rather go fishing or hunting (before the days of hunting seasons and regulation) would declare that"it's much too windy to pick stones today"
One last one that conjures a vivid image is " all humped over like a dog doin' a football". refering to someone either ill and cramping ,or someone who has become old and bent over.
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We use expression that our neighbor thought was odd the first time they heard it. They are not from this close area and everyone else thinks it is fine to use????
We say ..."turn the light out once" or "i'm going to run to town once" or anyting that ends in "once".... Neighbors kid us that we sould do "it" just once!!!LOL
My dad and uncles used that one a lot. They also ended a lot of sentences with "too yet" or "already". If they really wanted to make a point they'd throw a combo in there, something like "I wish that damn dog would get the hell out of the cow pen once too yet already" :)
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Dad had a bunch. "your gonna end up sucking farts off seatcovers if you dont graduate". " colder than a witches t#@ in a brass bra" "thats enough to chap my hide." . I had a book called " the cats pajamas" that looked into the source of some sayings. dont know how accurate it was but you know the saying " he dont know his a$# from a hole in the ground"? it is said to come from a period of economic strife when the out of work city folks would stray out to the farms for food,work, whatever and the farmers would say " he dont know an adze from a hoe" right now i cant fnd the book. must be packed away somewhere. love the thread
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Around here it's "he doesn't know if his arse was punched ,or bored or blown out by lightning!" Hahaha, this is an awesome post! Sucking farts off seatcovers.I'm going to use that on the kid next door taht comes over looking for advice on finishing school or not.
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my dad's standby when thing's got tough at work,"if it was easy anyone could do it", Bub
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you could fall in a bucket of s@@t and come out smelling of roses, i would fall in a bucket of t@ts and come out sucking my thumb, if brains were made of dynamite you wouldnt have enough to blow your cap off. if brains were made of sh@t you'd be constipated, lower than a well diggers heel, lower than a snakes belly, these are just a few i have heard.
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Old timer punched me in the arm once when a fairly interesting young lady walked by and he said, "Stare like that and you'll forget whether you're afoot or horseback."
When things get busy and you forget what you are doing while in the midst of doing thirteen things at once, you say, "I don't know if I just lost my horse or found a rope!"
And then there was a guy I worked with that was beyond useless. Having him around was like having two good men gone! We also were quite sure that he couldn't pour pi$$ out of his boot if you wrote the intructions under the heel.
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That reminds me of the ol feller I used to work with in landscaping. While straightening up one day over a particularly tiresome task, a rather pretty, well built, young lady went striding by and he says, "tall timbers are made for splittin!" It took me a while, until I recognized that he wasnt lookin at the trees... ::)
Laying blocks for my garage and I called a friend who does that for a living. I was apologizin for the foundation being a touch out of square and he says, "no hill for a climber!"
Scott
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Mark Twain wrote a version of Lost Arrow's post, ...... it is better to be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt. ;) He also said never argue with an idiot, those watching can't tell you apart. Also something similar, never argue with an idiot, he will just drag you down to his level, and beat you with experience. ;) When someone was driving, and had an "Exciting" experience, "scared me so bad, I chewed a hole in the seat. He was so ugly, his mother had to nurse him through a knot hole in a barrel. So ugly, the Dr. told his mother she had twins, till he realized he was looking at his arse and face at the same time. So ugly he had to slip up on a glass of water. He had to pull the sheet over his head so sleep could slip up on him. She was so ugly, she'd make a freight train take a dirt road. So ugly, looked like she was shot through a forest of ugly trees, and didn't miss a one. So ugly his parents had to tie a steak around his neck so the dog would play with him. When someone was tall, a southern expression would " Boy he or she can wade some deep water!" Or as my Cousin (the one with the thick ham steak) used to say to his sister, who was short, "She's so short, she'd have to stand on a bucket to kick a duck in the a$$!"
If you thought someone was going to do something, or something was going to turn out a certain way......"I will bet you dollars to doughnuts"......More birds than you can shake a stick at...... Scottish......if you want to dance, ya gotta pay the piper. Meaning if you are going to do something you are going to pay for it.
If you've seen one you've seen them all. Southern.... Man if you get caught doing something like that, they will put "UNDER" the jailhouse! English...... meaning something is a bit difficult, or you are in a bind of some kind...... "It's a bit of a sticky wicket!" Two birds with one stone..... try that Hunter trapper. ;)
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Day late, and a dollar short. Naval term, of being real drunk..... three sheets to the wind. Busier than a one legged man trying to stomp out a forest fire. Feeling sore all over after working out, or laboring hard, I feel like I went to a hammer fight, and forgot my hammer. :o
Talking about someone not too bright....... That boy is as sharp as the lead edge of a bowling ball. or, Put his brain in a match box, and it would look like a BB in a box car! He's a few bricks shy of a full load, I don't think his elevator goes all the way to the top. His bread ain't done. The crust on his bread is a little thin. Someone who is a little strange...... He ain't wrapped tight. He's been standing too close to the microwave with his tinfoil hat on! And for something that looks like it might happen, If it don't happen, I'll eat your hat! For something amazing...... if that don't beat all......if that don't take the cake...... For something that made you mad, I was so mad, I could've eat fried nails! :o :P...... Running around like a chicken with it's head cut off...... I haven't seen her for a month of Sundays......I haven't seen hide no hair of them...... I'll knock you into next year! For something difficult, or...... well, I can't say it on here...... but it applies to one of J.W's sayings, Anyway for something difficult, .......Harder than Chinese Arithmetic! When you don't know the answer to something,...... Beats my two aces. For someone who is a good salesman....... he could sell ice cubes to Eskimos Or W.C. Fields, You can fool some of the people, some of the time......and that's enough to make a decent living off of. OK, I will stop here. But wait! There's more!...... ::) Pt Barnum....... Which WC was spoofing....... You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. Also, a fool and his money are soon parted. Two wrongs don't make a right. Winning a war, doesn't decide who is right, only who is left. Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey! Referring to brass square with round dimples in it to hold the cannon balls on an old sailing ship, so they could be stacked in a pyramid shape. But when the temperature dropped down low enough, the metal would contract, and the balls would fall off the brass monkey. He who farts in church will sit in his own pew..... ::) :P....... Sorry, it uh slipped out...... OK, on that ......high .....note...... I will stop for tonight. This is fun..... ;D ;D ;D
Wayne
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My Grandmother would say, " That's as odd as a tree full of Owls" , My Dad would quip this sometimes ," That Girls as homely as a mud fence".
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How did you sleep last night? If they slept good, folks around here say "I slept like a fat baby". .... I dunno if skinny babies are restless or just how that one got started.
If someone is bucktoothed - "That kid could eat corn through a picket fence".
If they are ugly you could "dip their face in batter and make monster cookies".
If they got beat up they got their "ass whipped till a fly wouldn't light on them".
If they are rich "they got enough money to burn a wet mule".
If they caught a little fish it's "got eye trouble" (it's eyes are too close to it's ass).
If it's a strange person they are "weird as a three headed cat".
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she's hard on the eyes from the neck up
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Lost as an Easter egg in 10 foot of grass. :) I used that this morning with one of my guys. ;) ;D
Pappy
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I ocasionally tell my lazy helper he's as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
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Finer than frog hair...Nice job or a pretty woman/Don't tell me it's raining when your pissin down my back...Being told a fib/Lower than whale poop...Degree of treatment or statement to a person.
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If brains was dynamight that fella couldn't blow his nose, He would complain if you hung him with a new rope, He'd be late for his own funeral. Rode hard and put away wet. Bein' a fella with a handle of Bone pie I heard all the skinny ones, I had to jump around in the shower to get wet. So thin had to put rocks in the pockets to keep from blowin' away. I fell through a hole in my shoe and darn near hung myself
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"she's a 30/30"
Good at 30 feet or 30 mph
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your about as much use as a chocolate tea pot/ fireguard.
your tighter than a submarine door.
your tighter than a whales foreskin.
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He's so tight he squeaks when he walks, he's so crooked he has to screw his britches on.
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My music teacher - "You couldn't carry a tune in a bucket"
She was right
Thanks Leroy
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phrases I use at work that constantly consternate folks are 6 of one, half a dozen of the other, or fair to middlin. The preacer's wife used to say on the cold days that it as colder than a witches teat(polite) in a brass bra!
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Poor ol Bone Pile, he must have had to stand under the clothes line for shade.
Chinese proverb......If thine enemy, annoys you, buy each of his children a drum!
This may be pushing the envelope.......if you see a rather nicely endowed woman........Ooooh, Emerson! Emerson?......Yeah, Emerson nice ones! ::) :P
if someone has a big nose, they could hang on a limb in a Cherry tree, and pick cherries with both hands.
She has a butter face.......I like everything about her, "but her face"
The best way to get back on your feet, is to get up off of your a$$!
Or Ben Franklin......If you need a helping hand, look at the end of your arm.
Or as my Dad used to say about someone who was obese, she looked like a
bale of cotton with the middle band broke!
Ben Franklin.......After three days, fish, and guest begin to smell. :P
For someone who is hard of hearing.......You have speak loud, sound doesn't travel well in a vacuum.
She's not a fast cook, and she's not a slow cook...... she's a half fast cook........ Could be applied to workers, of various occupations, etc.
She talks so much, her tongue is hinged in the middle, and wags at both ends.
Air force term for a woman who is pregnant and has one or more children already.
She has two on the flight line, and one in the hanger.....
It's not whom you know that counts, it's what you know about whom, that counts.
Honest as the day is long.
As Mae West replied, when asked if there were any men in her life that count, and she replied, " It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men that counts!
For someone who tight with money, or "Parsimonious", He's tighter than a crab's a$$, and that's waterproof! He's so cheap, he could squeeze the buffalo off of a nickel! He's so cheap, he hangs his toilet paper out to dry.
Wayne
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We've gotem by the short hair now means he's caught.Boy he pinwheeled that one means he 10 ringed the shot.
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I once worked for a guy that was such a tightwad he actually made the hardware store "tare" the weight of the paper bag when he went in to buy a pound of nails. I made the crack about him that he was so cheap he'd use both sides of a sheet of buttwipe! He wouldn't fart until he was alone because he didn't wanna share NOTHIN'! I swear none of us ever heard him fart, but dogs did! His butt was so tight it doubled as a silent dog whistle.
Anywho...a friend of mine called and is down with the flu. He says he feels "like he been ate by a bear with halitosis and crapped thru his hemerrhoids over a windy cliff". In fact, he feels like he "been bent over backwards and drug by the short hairs thru a knothole".
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Wayne
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Big teeth:
That fella could eat an apple through a picket fence.
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Yeah J.W. I got that flu too. I feel like a toad lickin' pig s*#t! Which is better than yesterday. I felt like I was hung by the eyelids and beaten 'till I blinked.
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Crazier than a sh*t house rat. My boss says that about most of our team.
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Years ago one of my ranch hands didn't have the best hygiene and a bath to him was lookin up on a rainy day. I heard one of the guys say something that about sent me to a doctor laughin.
He said "somewhere on that body O yours theirs a tic a tryin to burn you off" ya had to be there :laugh:
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Heard a few people, including my dad, use this one when I was young, usually when they were annoyed with someone.... go pi$$ up a rope
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Another Southern one, which Pappy, Pat, and the S.C. Parker, should be familiar with, or at least have heard it. " Prettier, than a speckled pup under a red wagon!" Referring to a Blue, or Red tic hound, under a moonshiner's wagon. The Old time moonshiners, would have a red wagon, and usually had a Blue, or Red Tic hound with them, to let them know when the "revenooers, or as my Dad called them, "Pro Hi's" (Prohibitionists) ;D were coming around the still. ;)
So uncoordinated, he couldn't walk, and chew gum at the same time. :P
Wayne
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or raining so hard it was like a, "cow pi$$ing on a flat rock", or, "It's a real, frog choker".
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Here are some expressions that came out of the Royal Navy.
Three squares a day - plates on board RN Ships used to be square. easier to store that way, so each salior got three squares a day.
Shake a leg _ When ships put into port they often went " Out Of Discipline" which meant wives, mistresses and hookers could come aboard . Shake a leg was a request for whomever was under the blankets to stick out a leg to show if they wer a sailor or a woman when requested by an officer or watchman.
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a Brass Monkey.- The gizmo they used to stack the cannon balls in was called a Brass Monkey. Basically 3 brass plates with threaded rods running through them that clamed down on the cannon balls and held the stacks together. The iron balls would shrink in the cold and fall out.
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"Make hay while the sun shines" ... always thought this was good advise :)
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Use to do building restoration And sometimes things go awry... that is when Grand dads expression "dog crap don't stink until you step in it" really hits home
For the not so smart They are a half bubble Off plum
When it starts to rain the first drop that hit you is God's fault The second 1 is your own , and the old man would tell me is even birds have enough sense to get out the rain , meaning that they are smarter than me >:(
Slicker than cat crap on linoleum
And 1 I haven't figured out yet Do you live in town or ride a bike?
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I forgot to add he is nuttier than a squirrel turd
Or she is dingyr then a dinner bell
Or he's as nervous as a narc at a biker rally
Smiling like the butcher's dog
Slower than a junebug in January
And finally it's the cobbler's kids who have bare feet
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Yeah, Soy, we used to use phrases like that when I was in high school. Made no sense, but it threw people off because of it. So do you ride the bus, or take your lunch? ??? ;) It was sometimes used as an ice breaker (hmmm, there is an old saying....) when talking to a new girl. If she was quick, she could say "both", and you would then know you had a live one! ;)
Wayne
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"It was so cold it froze the balls of of a brass monkey". The brass monkey was what cannonballs were stacked on a ships deck. In very cold weather the brass would shrink and the cannonballs would roll off.
One of my Dads old sayings he said as a riddle..."why is a horse while flying? The higher the fewer! ::) Don't ask me.
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,,,another one, "if frogs could fly they wouldn't bump their a$$."
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My mother commenting on something new or shiny. "Shiner than a tin toilet in the moon light". She had lots of old time sayings. here's a couple from work. "Tighter than nuts on a steel bridge". Tighter than a bulls ass at fly time. Thats enough for now. Later Bob
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Sorry guys had to add my two cents worth. When I was a teen we used a different measure for beuty than one - ten. Really good looking "she'd make ya ride the wagon" ( As uposed to fall'n off ) Fair look'n "She's a six pack" Not so good " half rack" Bad looking "the whole case" And we won't speak of what would earn "Pony Keg & and share with Jimmy Beam"
With that said I must say I spent alot of time on ranches and met at least a half dozen of coasters ranch hand type. Boy after readen what coaster wrote I laught till I hurt and even teared up, wife thaught I done gone nuts. That was the best ever Thanks for the painfilled laugh. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Regional expressions can be funny or get you into trouble. In Britain if a young lady asks " knock me up in the morning"It means wake me up, us North American gents could possible be caught in an embarrassing position fufilling her request >:D. The British expression for pregnat I've heard is "she's up the stump"
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A farting horse never tires, and a farting man is the man to hire!
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Here goes,
Colder than a witches t$t
Like finding a corner to go pee in a round barn
Close the barn door before the big horse gets loose (my fly was always open)
Tracy
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expression for poor workmanship - "That looks like a bull's ass sewed up with a log chain!"
expression for poor marksmanship - "He couldn't hit a bull in the ass with a bass fiddle!".
Not sure why cattle's posterior is such an integral part of southern euphemisms.....
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Is a frog's butt water tight.
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Poor markmanship was you couldn't hit a barn if you were insied with the door shut.
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Drier than a popcorn fart- usually farmers talking about the lack of rain
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My dad always said this about his workers that didn't get any work done: they work harder at getting out of work than they do at working. We tell people we get payed from the neck down ( we get payed to work not think) . I work in turnpike maintenance , another common thing said when there is a close call is : I may need a change of drawers , a wrinkle in my seat or hit the eject button.
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Some local Afrikaans sayings : ''tussen die boom en die bas" 'between the tree and the bark' -meaning things are going OK
"jy gaan hare op jou tande nodig he" 'you're gonna need hair on your teeth' -meaning you're gonna need to be real tough
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Regional expressions can be funny or get you into trouble. In Britain if a young lady asks " knock me up in the morning"It means wake me up, us North American gents could possible be caught in an embarrassing position fufilling her request >:D. The British expression for pregnat I've heard is "she's up the stump"
'Knocked up' for pregnant is used over here too.
'Up the duff' is a common expression for pregnant, or 'got a bun in the oven'
Young lady goes into a bar and asks for a double entendre...
So the barman gave her one.
dunno if that translates your side of the pond?
I went into the fish and chip shop and said Fish and chips twice.
The guy said 'I heard you the first time' :)
One of my fave expressions...
If his brains were dynamite, he couldn't blow his hat off.
Del
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Dad used to say "if his brains were gas he couldnt ride a piss-ants motorcycle around the inside of a cheerio"