What other sayings do you find funny or odd?
Some of my favorites:
How are you? Answers: Fine as frogs hair!, Right as rain.
Also like the Whatevers: Whatever flips your skirt, floats your boat, corks your wine...
and: Don't get your panties in a bunch, knickers in a twist, etc.
Any favorites or local sayings that you find funny or cute? Oh, I almost forgot my alltime fave: Getting my kids under control is like Herding CATS!
Oh Yay! Thanks ya'll!
I have some new ones to use!
I have heard the witch/brass bra, but it makes more sense the way I heard it " Colder than a witches titty in a brass bra in the middle of february"-Now thats cold!
Love Hell bent for leather although I will have to look up origins.
my stars and garters is a new one for me and the mom that said it also said " I just took a roar"
she had to explain that one to me, still not 100% but i think that means she lost it and yelled a little.
pee peed on my parade is one of my favs.
but i just think it in my head
Doing that (picking up house with a toddler, etc) is like nailing jello to a tree.
The last time I heard that, I fell off my dinosaur! (that one gets me every time!)
My husband's grandfather always responds with this after someone sneezes..."Scat Cat! Your tail's on fire!" LOL Not sure where the heck something like that originates :-)
Why don't you have a bit of the Hair of the Dog that Bit you...
Hell bent for leather
Hurts like the Dickens!
I always hated the phrase "hell to the no" made famous by Whitney Houston.
I like whatever melts your butter, whatever bakes your cake, whatever fries your eggs...I guess I'm always hungry.
I am late to this, as usual, but I like...
______ is like herding cats - usually getting a group of people/children to do anything cohesively.
When I was a teen I had a friend who described cold things (people, weather, etc. ) as "Colder than a witch's titties in a brass bra". I have never been able to figure that one out.
But, since I live in the deep south my favorite saying is "Bless your heart". One can never be sure if the deliverer is being kind or telling you to sod off. (oh, sod off, another fav).
My old buddy from southern Missouri would say he was "Fuller than a dog tick." He'd also refer to a particularly crazy person or animal as "Having a hair up their a$$"
My old boss had a ton of wonderful sayings: "My cheese is sliding off my cracker" (I'm losing it) or "It's a thing of intense beauty."
Almost forgot "Hell bent for leather." I have NO idea what that means but I seem to use it when I'm on an itense mission.
"Busier than a one-armed paper hanger" and "I'll be there in two shakes of a lamb's tail." I have a friend who said all kinds of things like this ... Another co-worker started keeping a list, 'cause some of them were just so funny.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...
My son's godmother has two of our silly favorites:
"Chillin' like a villian" (when you ask how she's doing)
"Talk to the Booty, 'cuz the hand is off duty!" (said in jest)
whatever blows your dress up
in a pickle
