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Older than dirt

 

 

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17 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

old as the hills

Old as the hills on Grandma's chest

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12 minutes ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

Excuse me (as in after getting bumped into)

I was in Sam's a few months ago and there was a man there with what I assume where his two sons. The bigger one looked to be about 13. And he was not looking where he was going and he bumped into me pretty hard.

 

And then he shocked me absolutely and completely.

 

He said, "Excuse me, sir".

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have an axe to grind

mumbly peg

drier than a popcorn fart

back to the drawing board

high on the hog

a foot in the door

lame duck

skate keys

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Better than sliced bread…

”It’s all chicken but the gravy and that’s chicken gravy!”

Feelin’ Froggy

”Smack you nekkid ‘n’ hide yer clothes!”

“Quick as a minnow can swim ‘cross a dipper!”

 

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Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose

penny candy

 

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1 hour ago, Tooky Slim said:

Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose

Did anybody say that besides Vinnie Barbarino?

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14 hours ago, Warden Callaway said:

Mercurochrome and iodine.

remember those well cause i got the treatment , all too often , rusty nails and barbed wire , 

 

 

put it on the victrola 

transistor radio 

ring up the operator 

adjust the antenna 

adjust the vertical hold 

icebox 

put a nickle in the jukebox 

skateboards 

barbasol

geritol

silly millimeter longer 

church key - pop top tab 

ice pick 

stick match 

spats 

saddle shoes

cigarette girl 

call for phillip morris ....

answering machine 

 

 

 

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He’s a bubble off plumb

His biscuits ain’t done

It’s colder than a well digger’s a**
 

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Hook, line and sinker.

From the mouths of babes. 

Loose lips sink ships.

Keep on the sunny side.

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

I'll knock you into next week. 

Slow down. You'll get a more harmonious outcome.

Better late than never.

Early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy,  wealthy and wise. 

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tighter than two coats of paint  (One of Dodge City's phrases.  I just took it when he died.)

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey....or a steel bridge.....or a pawn shop sign.

dead ringer

get down to brass tacks

got his goat

pipe dream

a square meal

getting all gussied up

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I used to use "I'll bet you dollars to donuts" a lot.  Can't use it now that donuts cost over a dollar.

 

Actually, I do catch myself saying it occasionally before reminding myself it doesn't make sense anymore. 

I couldn't tell you where I first heard it.

 

Angus

 

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1 hour ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

I used to use "I'll bet you dollars to donuts" a lot.  Can't use it now that donuts cost over a dollar.

 

Actually, I do catch myself saying it occasionally before reminding myself it doesn't make sense anymore. 

I couldn't tell you where I first heard it.

 

Angus

 

Boy, ain't that the truth! I found out about a bakery fairly close so Mary and I drove over. Mary went in and come out with two boxes of rolls, fritters and longjohns. Looking at the price list she also got,  it was over $20! I use to fill the gas gusting Olds with gas, take Mary to the drive-in and stop at A&W and eat burger, fries and root beer on $20. 

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I'm your Huckleberry

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Sober as a judge

highfalutin

Gotta pee so bad my teeth are floatin’

Every day and twice on Sunday

More than one way to skin a cat (actually refers to fish, not felines)

Rich as Croesus 

Midas touch 

Ugly as sin (or galvanized sin if really ugly)

In high cotton

Your salad days (or Halcyon days) 

Not worth the powder to blow him up (surprised no one here got this one yet)

Crazy as a loon

Make hay while the sun shines

 

Seamus

 

 

 

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So hungry I'm getting cob webs in my butt.

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"Won't hold your water with that story." No idea where it came from (might google it).

 

"Deader than a doornail." Not sure if it was already posted, but I do know where this came from.

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26 minutes ago, Seamus McGillicuddy said:

Not worth the powder to blow him up

How about

If brains was Dynamite he couldn't blow his nose

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