Built like a burlap sack full of Bobcats .
RADAR, post: 398654, member: 413 wrote:
That is about as funny as a screen door on a submarine.
He's so blind that he would pick up a snake to kill a stick.
Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Australian: "Give us a fair suck of the sav".
sav is short for saveloy (a small sausage), whole meaning is give us an equal opportunity.
"That's what she said"
So and so looks rough..."theys rode hard and put up wet"
You know they're mad when:
"I'll cut ya three ways...long, deep, 'n continuous...girdle ya till ya tump!"
DDSM
Many moon's ago I had the good fortune to work with a hillbilly (his word's) who was born and raised in southern Missoura (he said that's how it was to be pronounced.) He was not well-educated but he was very intelligent (and he could clear a quarter mile of line perfectly before the transit-man could get set up). He had become very interested in the peculiarities in the way he pronounced words as well as local colloquialisms from the area where he grew up. He carried a å±1,000 book around with him that dealt primarily with colloquialisms throughout the country. He was very fond of stating some unintelligible colloquialism first thing in the morning and then we would spend the entire day discussing each word and how it had come to be used in a particular context. He had hunting phrases, fishing phrases, church phrases, almost everything you can think of - all very unusual to us AZ boys. Some of these conversations led to some very extreme fits of laughter by the entire crew, rolling on the ground not being able to breath episodes. I can still remember them although I couldn't begin to recall exactly what we were talking about. I wish I could recall the name of the book - it was really quite fascinating.
Working like this will make you stay on your own side of the bed tonight.
Andy Bruner, post: 398620, member: 1123 wrote: Harder than Chinese Arithmetic.
I suspect that phrase will be upgraded to "Harder than Common Core Math".
From da hood;
"It's yo' baby"
Jim in AZ, post: 398840, member: 249 wrote: Many moon's ago I had the good fortune to work with a hillbilly (his word's) who was born and raised in southern Missoura (he said that's how it was to be pronounced.) He was not well-educated but he was very intelligent (and he could clear a quarter mile of line perfectly before the transit-man could get set up). He had become very interested in the peculiarities in the way he pronounced words as well as local colloquialisms from the area where he grew up. He carried a å±1,000 book around with him that dealt primarily with colloquialisms throughout the country. He was very fond of stating some unintelligible colloquialism first thing in the morning and then we would spend the entire day discussing each word and how it had come to be used in a particular context. He had hunting phrases, fishing phrases, church phrases, almost everything you can think of - all very unusual to us AZ boys. Some of these conversations led to some very extreme fits of laughter by the entire crew, rolling on the ground not being able to breath episodes. I can still remember them although I couldn't begin to recall exactly what we were talking about. I wish I could recall the name of the book - it was really quite fascinating.
could it have been this one? https://www.amazon.com/1000-English-Idioms-Explained-Language/dp/0572033907
Thanks for the link, Tom.:cool:
Tom Adams, post: 398851, member: 7285 wrote: could it have been this one? https://www.amazon.com/1000-English-Idioms-Explained-Language/dp/0572033907
Tom - thanks, but I don't think that's the one. I see I omitted "å±1,000 page book" in my post. This thing was thicker than his Bible (which he also carried around, but that's a story for another time.)
as useful as tits on a bull
slow as molasses in winter
busier than a one-armed paper hanger
Sh*t or get off the pot.
lmbrls, post: 398458, member: 6823 wrote: 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
without a pot to pee in, OR A WINDOW TO THROW IT OUT