Old country sayings
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Built like a brick <poop> house (which I always heard used in reference to a well / over-built structure, but I've since heard some also use to describe a muscular individual)
He/she is like talking to a fence post
Flapping their gums
Could break an anvil
All hat no cattle
He/she is like talking to a fence post
Flapping their gums
Could break an anvil
All hat no cattle
I have a similar one from my grandpa, also about card games: "Sicker cats than that have lived!" meaning we've been in worse situations and still won the point.
A few months back during a staff meeting I said "we're making hay" and then had to explain it to my predominantly PNW colleagues.
During a big spring thaw one year, water running everywhere, old farmer noted "Yup, we got water running uphill today". Stuck little Boxster as pretty funny. Have used it a few times. Got corrected by a humorless hydraulic engineer who dead seriously told me water does not run uphill. Yeah, Stan, that's the joke.
Neater than a puppy with two peters
Hotter than a half f’d fox in a forest fire
Dumber than a box of rocks
Hotter than a half f’d fox in a forest fire
Dumber than a box of rocks
Dads dad was a font of sayings. Old farmer.
Hotter than Hell's half-acre.
If I raise hell, will you throw a brick under it?
Theres what you think, and what you know. Its what you know that counts. What you think dont amount to a damn.
"Piss crick". Not a saying per se, just an expression for any foot wide stream.
Man theres more, i will have to talk to dad and get a few more quality items.
Hotter than Hell's half-acre.
If I raise hell, will you throw a brick under it?
Theres what you think, and what you know. Its what you know that counts. What you think dont amount to a damn.
"Piss crick". Not a saying per se, just an expression for any foot wide stream.
Man theres more, i will have to talk to dad and get a few more quality items.
"Crime in Italy?" which is a shortened version of "There's crime in Italy?".
My father used to say this when someone said something patently obvious to him... like he didn't already know - or everybody should know by then.
I have no doubt he picked this up after returning from WW II and working for some families in Des Moines in the late 40's and early 50's.
My father used to say this when someone said something patently obvious to him... like he didn't already know - or everybody should know by then.
I have no doubt he picked this up after returning from WW II and working for some families in Des Moines in the late 40's and early 50's.
I have contracted Dickey Do disease as I have gotten older.
My belly sticks out further than my Dickey Do.
My belly sticks out further than my Dickey Do.
Hotter than a two dollar hooker.
Rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a sister as a hawkeye.
Sucks hind teet
Knew one who when they were at home doing nothing say, “ just effing the dog”
Can’t get there from here.
Blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile.
Knew one who when they were at home doing nothing say, “ just effing the dog”
Can’t get there from here.
Blind squirrel finds a nut every once in awhile.
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The version I know is nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
I used to work with an old engineering tech who had gone through the Army. Whenever I asked him to do something for me that wasn't urgent, I'd tell him "I don't need it real fast" to which he would ALWAYS reply "Oh, so I can do it half-fast then?" I walked into it every time, but did always make me chuckle.
