Favorite quirky sayings

[monarch64]

Also from my father:

"it''s colder than a well digger''s a$$"
"(insert name here) is nuttier than a f---in'' fruitcake."
"they threw away the mold when they made her." (Regarding my mother)
"wilder than a h''aint" (h''aint being a southern or possibly redneck expression for ghost, or haunt)
"I''m wore to a frazzle"

Just so I am not painting my father as some sort of uneducated mountain man...he is very well educated but remembers/remembered these expressions from hearing them during his own childhood and thinks it''s funny to use them. My mother, priding herself on her use of proper English, absolutely HATED that he would use these expressions in front of my brother and me...I remember her getting red in the face and just LIVID when he use them in our presence, which only made him do it more.

 

[monarch64]

Date: 4/8/2008 10:48:27 PM
Author: brazen_irish_hussy
I grew up with a bunch of them without realizing it. My parents are well read and speak very well and it was not until college that I learned most people don't say things like 'don't cut off your nose to spite your face'.

My FI's favorite is one he came up with, 'it makes sense in a things making sense sort of way'
My favorite as a kid was, 'he did what, with who, for how many jelly beans?'

There were so many I loved in Ireland I can't list them, but I used them for months after I got back. There is a statue of Molly Malone, from an Irish song, who is buxom and not afraid to show it as she ' she wheeled her wheel-barrow, through streets broad and narrow'. Anyway, the Dubliners call her the 'tart with the cart'. One day my FI got a picture of me reaching into her cleavage to pully out a 5 cent piece. It is certainly not a misnomer.

My absolute favorite though, is from college. I went to a very liberal school in a VERY conservative, religious city and we were not looked upon favorably. There was a lot of local drama because of it, so my friend started saying, 'Darwin loves you'. Everytime I think of that it makes me smile on so many levels.

Brazen....thank you for posting this...because I've been trying to remember the song since I posted a thread in Family Home and Health entitled "Lullabies" a couple months ago! My mom used to sing "cockels and mussels (a-live, a-live-oh)" to me as a lullaby! I had no idea the subject of the song was the "tart with the cart," ROFL I wonder if my mom knows that?!

Dianne, I just read your contribution, "don't pay no never-mind" also a favorite of my fathers!

 

[Gypsy]

Kaleigh, I read you post and it was like... something went off in my head. I''ve been sitting her stewing for hours about work, my boss tried to get me laid off this week, I found out and my VP protected me. So, I''ve been trying to get "leave well enough allone" through my thick ANGRY skull. It''s like you were speaking to me, with Nana''s advice. I think I''m going to have to take it.

Marcy... lol @ lazy wind.

Monarch, your dad sounds wonderful. Just wonderful.

 

[monarch64]

Date: 4/12/2008 1:44:16 AM
Author: Gypsy
Kaleigh, I read you post and it was like... something went off in my head. I''ve been sitting her stewing for hours about work, my boss tried to get me laid off this week, I found out and my VP protected me. So, I''ve been trying to get ''leave well enough allone'' through my thick ANGRY skull. It''s like you were speaking to me, with Nana''s advice. I think I''m going to have to take it.

Marcy... lol @ lazy wind.

Monarch, your dad sounds wonderful. Just wonderful.

Ha ha, thanks, he''s pretty funny. Full of piss ''n vinegar, as they say (couldn''t resist!) Thanks for starting this thread! Brings back lots of great memories!

 

[diamondfan]

I like Cool beans too.

I remember hearing about someone who was mad at someone else, "I would like to snatch her bald headed" I think of my mother in law when I hear that.

Another friend of mine used to say, "Don''t let the door hit you wear the Lord split you" (don''t get hit on your ass on the way out the door) which I thought was kinda funny.

My mom loved the saying "Don''t go borrowing trouble, your own finds you soon enough"

I liked too the saying about the early bird but the version I know also said, but who wants to eat a worm? (not me!)

 

[diamondfan]

and who can forget the ever popular

You catch more bees with honey than vinegar.

and

Smile, it doesn''t cost a thing.

(I guess I was a testy teen or something...)

 

[monarch64]

Date: 4/12/2008 2:38:45 AM
Author: diamondfan
and who can forget the ever popular

You catch more bees with honey than vinegar.

and

Smile, it doesn''t cost a thing.

(I guess I was a testy teen or something...)

Oh, my grandmother has always said that...I catch myself saying it now with a super southern/country accent just making fun of it, but it''s SO TRUE! Sadly, she hasn''t always practiced the concept. It''s still a great saying, though, and a good reminder that being nice goes a long way in life.

 

[monarch64]

*OH* just thought of another one (jeez I''m on a roll now): "Kiss my grits" from the show Alice. My mom used to love saying that with a southern accent when we were little, it drove my dad nuts (see my post above). I guess it was just a "nicer" way of telling someone to kiss a body part but I remember my brother and I cracking up over it.

 

[Delster]

Date: 4/11/2008 11:37:36 PM
Author: dianne

Date: 4/9/2008 3:24:37 PM
Author: Starset Princess

''It''s colder than a witch''s tit.'' Don''t know why.

I know why, Starset, because the rest of the saying is ''in a brass bra''.

Our version is, ''it''s so cold it''d freeze the b***s off of a brass monkey''!

I surveyed BF''s friends and got some, um, interesing ones. Completely unrepeatable. The following are the only civil ones:

I''m so hungry I could chew the arm off a scabby baby (I mean seriously?!?!? We are looking askance at BF''s housemate after this once...

)

I''m so hungry I could eat a baby through a ditch backwards (BF''s college pal is also under supervision around small children)

And from my mother:

He''s so tight he''d mind mice at a crossroads (meaning a person who is mean with money)

There were loads more, I''ll keep rummaging around in my memory!

 

[bee*]

I''ve only heard :I''m so hungry I could eat a scabby horse. Never heard the baby one.

 

[laine]

From my friend from Kentucky:

"as useless as tits on a boar hog" --picture that said with a whole lotta drawl by a nice southern belle
"sweatin'' like a whore in church" --again, said with a little southern accent

 

[dianne]

I have really enjoyed this post...does bring back a lot of memories. I''ve been trying to think of more and as I read everyone''s post, when one sounds familiar, I''m like, "Oh! I forgot about that one!"

Here''s one:
"He''s so tight you could stick a chunk of coal up his a$$ and a few months later he would sh*t a diamond."--meaning someone was very stingy with money.

How appropriate to have a diamond reference on Pricescope, huh?

 

[ladypirate]

Last night, my mom said she was "tickled pink"--I love that one.

 

[blushingbride]

I love this saying when something is puzzling to me:

"It''s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in mystery"

 

[AmberWaves]

I finally had time to post mine! I say "Cool Beans" all the time, and honestly? I have no idea where I got it from!

I say, "Oh my fur and whiskers!" A lot like SDL''s "Oh my stars!", although this one is more of a fretty/hurried saying. I got it from Alice in Wonderland (the Disney version). The white rabbit looked at his clock and remarked, "Oh my fur and whiskers! I''m late!"

This was my grandma''s saying, and I''ve never heard it said before or after (she passed away): "See you in the funny papers!" She''d say that to us any time she dropped us off somewhere. I still don''t really know what it means, but it was a bit of her Idaho comin'' out, I believe.

 

[ksinger]

For a curse to be used anytime, the FI says "Ratchel FRATCHET!!!" Or one of my faves, (append to whatever works - trust me, he manages to work it in...) "like lightly fried weasel. On toast."

My mom used to say "busier than a cranberry merchant".

My personal fave for use about someone who is an arrogant jerk, is "Yes, he''s the suppository of all knowledge."

I''m sure I''ll think of others once I log off...

 

[blushingbride]

Oh...I forgot another one of my faves. Sometimes when I want to say "thank you" instead of saying "gracias" I''ll say grassy ass.

 

[monarch64]

Date: 4/15/2008 9:11:35 AM
Author: blushingbride
Oh...I forgot another one of my faves. Sometimes when I want to say ''thank you'' instead of saying ''gracias'' I''ll say grassy ass.

Ha ha...do you ever say "your a$$ is grass and I''m the lawnmower"? LOL.

 

[Linda W]

This post is great, I just found it.

One thing we always say is. "The lights are on, but nobody''s home" Rick says that to me if I am staring off into space and he asked me a question or something and I do the same to him. We always get a laugh out of it.

Linda

 

[nytemist]

Sooooo many of these phrases I''ve heard from my relatives in the South... they are too funny!

I''ve heard:

"Off like a prom dress." (someone is leaving quickly)
"Subtle as a brick to the head."
"Dumb as a stump"
"They got hit with the stupid stick" or the "ugly stick". The other Southern phrase is "never mind the ugly stick, they got hit with the whole tree."
"A blind man could see that" or my dad''s favorite, "Ray Charles could see that"
Anything ending with "yonder"

"Suck my left one" (telling someone in a not so nice why to get lost)

"The bee''s knees" (something real cool) I heard this alot when I worked with people from Ireland.
"What a coinkidink" or "I''m so confuzzled"
Saying that someone could "shatter mirrors" (really unattractive)
"I could cut glass in here" (being so cold that you you-know-whats seem stiff enough to cut glass)

"You''re like a fart in a frying pan" I don''t get this at ALL, but it''s supposed to refer to a really hyper person.
"Stop the verbal diahrrea" (someone keep talking you-know-what)
"Like putting lipstick on a pig" (trying to improve a situation that can''t be saved)

Then there are the references to people you don''t think are right in the head:
"They are one brick shy of a load"
"Their elevator doesn''t stop on every floor"
"Couple of fries short of a Happy Meal"

Blushingbride- I say grassy ass to one of my friends all the time.

 

[zoebartlett]

Bee used one the other day in a recent BWW thread begun by Pandora. She called a woman an absolute wagon. I had never heard of that one but it made me laugh.

 

[diamondfan]

Nyte, I used to hear Off like a CHEAP prom dress!

I also loved Busier than a one armed paper hanger, busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest and more nervous than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

I also have a few about not being so smart...including Not the brightest bulb in the box.

Who remembers, Just cause there is snow on the roof does not mean there is not a fire in the fireplace? (this is to say an older person can still be hot)

 

[Independent Gal]

When I was a teenager, I thought the English expression "Big with child" was hilarious so my friends and I came up with all kinds of variants. So, e.g., if we were inquiring if someone had access to a car that evening we would say "Are you big with car?" etc.

When I first arrived in America, I really liked

"She''s got junk in the trunk" and
"My bad"

I also like "Let''s blow this popsicle stand" meaning, I gather, "Let''s get out of this boring place!"

I also have a fondness for "Now you''re cooking with gas!" when something starts to work. So cheesy. In a good way.

 

[laine]

Didn''t realize this one was "quirky" till me boyfriend looked at me like i was nuts last night. Peewaddins, as in "scared the peewaddins out of me" or things along those lines. No idea where it came from, or if I''m spelling it right. I remember my mom saying it.

 

[rizz]

thought of another one

"shes all over him like a wet shirt" a girl who is extremely PDA'ing or clingy

my friends and I do a lot of what we call "talk shmalk" i.e. "don't forget your purse" "whatever...purse shmurse" does that even make sense?

 

[miraclesrule]

One of my friends always says....

"Did you have a big bowl of stupid this morning?" I don''t know why I crack up every time I hear her say it to or about someone, but I do.

"I hear ya'' cluckin'' big chicken" <---- sort of a I hear ya and feel for you sister....

And the priceless stuff my assistant comes up with...
This one is for you Gypsy...everytime you think of your boss, just think like my assistant does ( but not about me) and call her...in your mind...
"Snatchface"

 

[miraclesrule]

Since I am an impatient person, my personal favorites are:

"Ta,ta,ta, Today Junior!!"

or...

"I can''t believe that out of two million sperm, YOU were the quickest!!"

 

[sera]

Date: 4/18/2008 10:49:29 AM
Author: Independent Gal
When I was a teenager, I thought the English expression ''Big with child'' was hilarious so my friends and I came up with all kinds of variants. So, e.g., if we were inquiring if someone had access to a car that evening we would say ''Are you big with car?'' etc.

When I first arrived in America, I really liked

''She''s got junk in the trunk'' and
''My bad''

I also like ''Let''s blow this popsicle stand'' meaning, I gather, ''Let''s get out of this boring place!''

I also have a fondness for ''Now you''re cooking with gas!'' when something starts to work. So cheesy. In a good way.

Oh my gosh, I''m cryin'' tears here!

Some of the slang like ''My bad'' got stuck in my vocab...
I was doing inner-city youth ministry and I had some of the kids in the car and one of the kids outside was buggin'' me and leans on the back of my car right when I was going to pull out of the driveway into a busy street... I scream... now mind you I''m like one of 5 white people in the city so my blonde-haired, blue-eyed whiteness stands out quite a bit but I have incorporated a bit of ghettotude... so I scream, "STEP OFF, FOO!" and there is. . . d e a d s i l e n c e. . . then they burst out laughing. But gawsh, that was dangerous!

For some reason I also like ''all up in mah grill.''
Like ''junk in the trunk'' and the country version ''bondonkadunk''


The other day my grandma said, "don''t have a kitten," the gentle version of ''don''t have a cow.'' She also frequently uses, "don''t have a conniption." Both funny ways to tell someone to chill.

A friend of mine always said, "Big Woop," and it would send me into giggles every time and I would have to repeat the phrase a few times between giggles. I don''t know why I found the shortened version of Woopdeedoo so funny, but I did.

laine, peewaddins?! LOL

What really cracks me up about my FI (and I also find endearing) is that he messes up the idioms to the point they make absolutely NO sense! I''ll have to write some down. A friend of mine would always say, "See ya later, crocadile."

 

[sera]

Oh yeah, when FI takes to long to press on the gas when the light turns green I tell him, "It won''t get any greener." He says I''m impatient...

...only when he''s slow.

 

[bee*]

thought of another one-

nifty-meaning quickly.

in a jiffy means in a minute (I''ll be with you in a jiffy).