I am sure we all have some expression or old saying where people look at you funny when you use them. Here are a few of the ones I have heard.
1.They would not be happy if we hung them with a new rope.
2. I have not had this much fun since the hogs ate little sister.
3. That dog don't hunt.
4. No good deed goes unpunished.
5. The first rattle in the bucket.
6. He's a legend in his own mind.
7. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
8. They would dress out at 200 pounds.
9. A politician is only lying when their lips are moving.
10. Breathing too much night air.
I am sure many of you have some I have not heard.
All those got on Noah's ark on crutches...
The British have a ton of these and quite often I don't get half of them. One that threw me one time was, 'she's in a family way'. Whatttt? Can't just say she's pregnant? Another that seems quite fitting around here lately is 'Barrack-room lawyer'.
https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/country/british+english.html
Cheers! :clink:
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
I'm going to make groceries means I'm going to the grocery store.
Hose pipe for hose bib.
when buying something from the store "here's a little lagniappe". The store owner will give you something extra like buying a dozen crabs or oysters and getting 13.
I have an envie which means craving. I have an envie for gumbo, steak and gravy pronounced similar to on--V.
Over yonder
Macias
wait-a-minute bush
well I never
Hold your horses
He gee'd when he shoulda hawed
more than one way to skin a cat
wished I had 5 more like him, I'd drown all 6 of them in the lake
he needs killin'
saucer their coffee
He's rowing with one oar.
Duuuude!
Sup?
Late!
[that's an entire conversation (convo)]
I grew up in little Oklahoma, Kern County, California.
First, what is pronounced hwat.
If my friend's Dad said "GOOD KNIGHT!" we were in trouble. If he said "GOOD KNIGHT NURSE! we were in real bad trouble.
She's so ugly she'd make a freight train take a dirt road.
Happy as a dead pig in the sunshine.
He's so ugly that when he was born the doctor slapped his momma.
He's so skinny he has to pass the same spot twice to cast a shadow.
Andy
He's so ugly that his folks tied a pork chop around his neck so the dog would play with him.
Happy as a pig in S____.
Without a pot to pee in.
He's so skinny that he has to jump around in the shower to get wet.
Bun in the oven
Hiring him was like having two good hands quit..
Didn't know whether to sh*t or go blind.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
They're so poor they ain't got a pot to p*** in or a winder to throw it out.
Musta fell off'n the turnip truck
Dummer 'n a box of rocks
His elevator don't go all the way to the top floor
Built like a brick s***house
'Bout as handy as a dishwasher in the desert
So crooked he can't lie straight in bed
He's a full bubble out of plumb.
There's no slack in her rope!
He's overdrawn at the memory bank.
Confused as a goat on astroturf.
Thanks to http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/more-colorful-texas-sayings/
Don't know that I've ever seen Shinola, but I prefer to believe that I do know s*** from Shinola.
That gal's so cross-eyed she can watch the front door and the back door at the same time.
Tain't funny.
If wishes were horses, we'd all have a ride.
She's so buck-toothed she could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.
It's colder than a witches tit.
Everyone's a comedian and you just happen to be one.
LRDay, post: 398540, member: 571 wrote: It's colder than a witches tit.
...colder than a well digger's lunch was popular around here too.
That guy "has been everywhere but the electric chair and seen everything but the wind".
It's hotter than 2 squirrels f@$#$!g in a wool sock.
Raining harder than a cow peeing on a flat rock.