|
January 21st, 2014 | #1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Virginia, CSA
Posts: 11,145
|
Vanishing Idioms
Phrases I heard from parents & grandparents while growing up, but rarely hear anymore:
Tight as Dick's Hatband Who Struck John Like Grant Took Richmond Cock & Bull Story Not a tater where you're diggin' Add yours.
__________________
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath "The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin |
January 21st, 2014 | #2 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 1,139
|
In a coon's age
Mighty white a 'ya |
January 21st, 2014 | #3 |
MIA
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Off the reservation
Posts: 2,639
|
Safer than chitlins on a city folk's supper plate.
Hotter than a jug full of red ants. If that don't put a clod in your shoe. You couldn't burst a bird's egg with a balpene hammer. This here [stew] will grow hair on your elbows. [It's] hot enough to fry a horseshoe. Tighter than the feathers on a prairie chicken's rump. The onliest thing you get from stradlin' the fence is a sore backside. I'll get after you like thunder after lightnin'. How'd you like to be gatherin' eggs and find her in nest? Fine as frogs hair. Naked as a plucked prairie chicken. Bleedin' like a stuck hog. He ain't got the gumption to pound sand for a rat hole. I thumped him 'till his ears rang like the liberty bell. Crookeder than a dog's hind leg. Hold `yer taters. [He's] got more friends than a dog's got hairs on his back. Sit there like a boll weevil on a corn cob. [He] draws trouble like a summer melon draws flies. [I] feel better than a barn rooster on a prime hoot. Quiet as a mouse tip toeing. Quiet as on cotton on cottontail. I'll get onto you like ugly on an ape. Hoppin' around like a flea on a hot skillet. You look like a sunfish who flopped. When you learn a thing a day you store up smart. That don't hurt a particle. If you don't call, then you don't see the hand. I made a bigger mess than a sow's bed. Ain't you startin' to itch before you git bit? He can't see past the brim of his hat. Pooch up like an old toad. Rougher than a wagon load full of cobs. No more chance than a grass hopper in a hen house. Flatter than a snake though a ringer. I loved that boy like a June morning. Quieter than a gagged gopher. Sincere as at a $5 funeral |
January 21st, 2014 | #4 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Virginia, CSA
Posts: 11,145
|
Free, WHITE & 21
Too Dumb to Pour Piss out of a Boot with Instructions on the Heel
__________________
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath "The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin |
January 21st, 2014 | #5 |
Perception Manager
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 2,794
|
Nanny pants - my grandma used to say that one, meaning a guy that does the housework.
the "Horn" meaning telephone, my h.s. teacher used to use that one as a joke "mighty white of you"... a friend in h.s. used to say that one, but I don't hear it any more colder than a witch's teat hotter than a french whore
__________________
|
January 21st, 2014 | #6 |
Pussy Bünd "Commander"
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: land of the Friedman, home of the Braverman
Posts: 13,329
|
off the top of my head...
...
fucked up as a three car nigger funeral. quiet as a mouse pissing on cotton. good lord willin' and the creek don't rise. drunker'n Cooter Brown. happier than a faggot in a dick tree. couldn't find his/her ass w/ both hands and a flash light. harder than Chinese arithmetic.
__________________
Worse than a million megaHitlers all smushed together. |
January 21st, 2014 | #7 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Virginia, CSA
Posts: 11,145
|
Quote:
"If the Lord lets me live..." He didn't. The Blower (telephone) Too Dumb to Wipe his Ass
__________________
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath "The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin |
|
January 21st, 2014 | #8 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 2,216
|
Too Dumb to Pour Piss out of a Boot with Instructions on the Heel[/QUOTE]
Forgot about that one. A true classic. |
January 21st, 2014 | #9 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Virginia, CSA
Posts: 11,145
|
Quote:
LBJ had one about Jerry Ford: "Ford's too dumb to chew gum & fart at the same time...."
__________________
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath "The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin |
|
January 21st, 2014 | #10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 1,020
|
Busier than a set of jumper cables at a Mexican funeral.
__________________
... |
January 21st, 2014 | #11 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 2,216
|
Hotter than a two dollar pistol.
|
January 21st, 2014 | #12 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Crawlin' from the wreckage
Posts: 1,951
|
"As nervous as a nigger at election time".
From my Mother who was born and raised in West Virginia. |
January 22nd, 2014 | #13 |
Banned
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 160
|
"Kids about as sharp as a bowling ball"
|
January 22nd, 2014 | #14 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Virginia, CSA
Posts: 11,145
|
Quote:
"Sweatin' like a nigger on Election Day"
__________________
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath "The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin |
|
January 22nd, 2014 | #15 | ||
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,431
|
I lived with this girl a couple years, we went to visit her grandma in northern Arkansas and granny was describing a situation where she and grandpa had gone camping and the young couple in the nearest tent were keeping them awake with their noise. You probably see what's coming here anyway she says she went over there to talk peacefully and "sure enough they was a he-n' and a she-n' in there!!!" lol
Quote:
Quote:
Not sure if this is an "idiom", exactly, but my grandmother stopped speaking to one of her cousins for 30(?) years, I believe the story went, because of a comment made at a family get-together just after my dad was born. Grandma was showing him off to everyone and this girl cousin says "well, you could flush him down the toilet if his ears weren't so big" heheh she wasn't married yet, probably upset about grandma's publicity.
__________________
No time for the old in 'n out, love. I've just come to read the meter. |
||
January 22nd, 2014 | #16 |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 8,105
|
Dumb as a day-old nigger.
|
January 24th, 2014 | #17 |
Pussy Bünd "Commander"
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: land of the Friedman, home of the Braverman
Posts: 13,329
|
Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey.
__________________
Worse than a million megaHitlers all smushed together. |
January 26th, 2014 | #18 |
Pussy Bünd "Commander"
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: land of the Friedman, home of the Braverman
Posts: 13,329
|
__________________
Worse than a million megaHitlers all smushed together. |
January 26th, 2014 | #19 |
Perception Manager
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 2,794
|
"The White man is proud of you"
That one I still hear every once in a while at work, when a White guy is talking to a black guy and approving of what he did (as a joke). No, it's not vanishing, but I'd just throw it into the mix.
__________________
|
January 26th, 2014 | #20 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Virginia, CSA
Posts: 11,145
|
"Cat fur to make kitten britches. You want a pair?" Said when someone nosy is asking what something is.
__________________
"First: Do No Good." - The Hymiecratic Oath "The man who does not exercise the first law of nature—that of self preservation — is not worthy of living and breathing the breath of life." - John Wesley Hardin |
Share |
Thread | |
Display Modes | |
|