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Tighter than bark to a tree 

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Tighter than skin on a weenie!

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Darning socks

Dang me

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catywampus

rat killin

long in the tooth

good lord willin and the creek dont rise

all hat and no cattle

dilly dally

persnickety

willy nilly

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"Wouldn't touch her with yours"

"Wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole"

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23 hours ago, Warden Callaway said:

Bubble off plumb

 

I always heard it as... half a bubble off plumb.

 

Ground squirrels in the grain elevator.

A few bricks short of a full load.

A couple of sandwiches short of a picnic.

Nothin' but cobwebs in the corn crib.

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I've heard.. half a bubble of center

 

Traveling with a light seabag 

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When dad and I were building something - a deck, perhaps - and something was off "just a skosh" he would say, "The only people that will ever know are you and me and I'm not telling anybody."

 

When taking measurements for a cut the finest measurement dad would make was in 8ths... but not really.  He would tell you, "56 inches and a heavy 5/8ths" or, "56 inches and a light 5/8ths 

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18 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

He would tell you, "56 inches and a heavy 5/8ths" or, "56 inches and a light 5/8ths 

Mine would tell me whether or not to leave the line.

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And then there was something about the coloration of hairs.:ph34r:

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50 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

And then there was something about the coloration of hairs.

 

That too.  After I'd gro'd up.

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Root hog or die!

 

“If you put his brain in a matchbox, it’d rattle like a BB in a boxcar!”

 

”If you rolled his brain down the edge of a razor blade, it’d look like a BB rolling down an eight lane highway!”

 

”If her brain was gasoline, it wouldn’t run a pissant’s motorcycle around a grain of rice!”

 

Talkin’ ta’ hear your head rattle.

 

”Her porch light’s on, but ain’t nobody home!”

 

No fleas on this hound!

 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Warden Callaway said:

Don't let the screen door hit you in the a$$ on your way out. (Ellen DeGeneres)

On Hannah Montana I heard her tell somebody one time, "Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you".

 

Funny, but the way I always heard it was don't let the door hit you on your way out.

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15 hours ago, Eyesa Horg said:

And then there was something about the coloration of hairs.:ph34r:

cuffs and collar don't match.

curb feelers.

dryer than a popcorn fart

barking up the wrong tree.

Brownie points

down the tubes

close but no cigar

heebie jeebies

flavor of the month

pie in the sky

real McCoy

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The room was so small, you had to go outside to change your mind. 

Five will get you 10. Also: 15 will get you 20. When talking about girls. 

It tasted so bad I had to lick a coon dowg's butt to get the taste out. 

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He's so skinny, he has to run around in the shower to get wet.

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19 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

He's so skinny, he has to run around in the shower to get wet.

 

If he drank a bottle of cherry soda he'd look like a thermometer.

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