Old time and not commonly-heard phrases.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Two of Dad's favorites (When Mom wasn't around.)

Raining like a three p.......d horse peeing on a flat rock.

Sh.. and four's ten and two more's a dozen.

Edited January 29, 2025 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Warden Callaway]

Six of one. Half-dozen of another. 

[Kid Rich]

On 1/26/2025 at 6:09 PM, Warden Callaway said:

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

That sayin was around a long time before her mama pooped her onto the top of a post.

kR

[Warden Callaway]

Low and behold. 

Chill out.

Better than a sharp stick in the eye. 

If I felt any better,  I'd have to have someone to help me. 

Out of sight, out of mind. 

[Seamus McGillicuddy]

6 hours ago, Warden Callaway said:

 

Out of sight, out of mind. 

As opposed to: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 
 

Seamus

[Three Foot Johnson]

When I was a young'un, and we'd return home after dark from a long day away, my mother would say, "Here we are in the red cow's mouth". I have no idea where that came. 

[Alpo]

39 minutes ago, Three Foot Johnson said:

Here we are in the red cow's mouth

Speaking of red - thought of this when I saw that

 

Do people in Pennsylvania still red off the table?

[Warden Callaway]

Praise the Lord and pass the biscuits. 

Cooking with gas.  Also, cooking with grease. 

Got it by the tail on a down hill pull. 

One foot in the grave and the other foot slipping. 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

Got one oar out of the water

 

”He ain’t just clueless! He don’t even suspect anything!”

 

Lost as last year’s Easter egg!

 

Dumber than a grubbin’ hoe!

[Warden Callaway]

Keep making a face like that and its going to stay that way.

If eveyone else jumped off a cliff,  I suppose you'd want to too.

Ignorance can be cured but stupidity is for ever.

[Kid Rich]

A waist is a terrible thing to mind. (DBK, 1981)

kR

[Warden Callaway]

Lala palusa (don't know if its one word or two)

Screaming off into the dark.

Come what may.

Well, I'll be horn swaggled.

Off to the market. 

[Alpo]

6 minutes ago, Warden Callaway said:

Lala palusa (don't know if its one word or two

The word—sometimes alternatively spelled and pronounced as lollapalootza, lalapaloosa, or lallapaloosa (P. G. Wodehouse, The Heart of a Goof)—dates from a late 19th-century/early 20th-century American idiomatic phrase meaning "an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance". Its earliest known use was in 1896. In time, the term also came to refer to a large lollipop.

[Rye Miles #13621]

My dad liked, “Son of a beer pitcher” 

 

Dad gummit 

Edited January 30, 2025 by Rye Miles #13621

[Warden Callaway]

You snooze,  you loose.

Fisheyed fool.

Johnny come lately. 

Just a shot in the dark.

Good thing come to them that wait. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 1/27/2025 at 8:35 PM, Rev Willy Dunkum, SASS # 61027 said:

 

Just a chair full of bowlies.  (A tip of the hat to Professor Spooner.)

Slicker that teflon snot (my 8 year old grandson's contribution back twenty years ago.)

bats in the belry

knock him into a cocked hat.

it's snowing.We can go tubing.passing the buck.

Goody Two Shoes.

don't get your dander up.

whole nine yards.

Edited January 30, 2025 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 1/25/2025 at 10:32 AM, Stump Water said:

 

Yeah, Deadwood was rough on the ear... after a bit you got numb to it.

I didn't stick around that long.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 1/25/2025 at 5:04 PM, Blackwater 53393 said:

A bait of grub

A pig in a poke 

“You’re in my light!”

Shutin’ the barn door after the horse gets out.

Wound up like an eight day clock.

Bumper Jacks

Limber as a dish rag

Deader ‘n’ a popcorn fart!

 

 

Drier than a popcorn fart

[Warden Callaway]

You can't tell what way the train went by looking at its tracks. 

No problemo.

We need a cheap substitute for quality. 

If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it. 

You break it, you buy it. 

More fun than a barrel of monkeys. 

Best thing since sliced bread.

That takes the cake. 

 

 

 

 

[Rye Miles #13621]

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me

Oh Phooey

For Pete sakes 

[Dogmeat Dad, SASS #48563L]

Rolls Canardly (when talking about a car)  Translation:  Rolls Down Hill, Can Hardly Make It Up The Next.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

So short he could sit on a cigarette paper and swing his legs

Half a sandwich shy of a picnic

So crooked he planted a grove of cork screws for shade.

So crooked he wasn't buried. They screwed him into the ground.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

 

whole nine yards.

 

 I understand this to be from WW11, ..... fighter planes had belt fed machineguns, usually with 27' each ; thus to empty ones guns into an enemy was to give them the whole 9 yards.

 

also  the throttle plunger had a spherical knob and was pushed in toward the firewall to go faster.  ........ thus "balls to the wall" meant full throttle, or 'everything she's got'.

 

I willingly stand to be corrected.

      (I won't like it, but I'll stand 😉)

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

I was told the same thing, Wallaby -- by a B17 pilot from the European theater, rest his soul.

I'd say you do indeed have the right of it!

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

Thank You, Sir  🙃

[Eyesa Horg]

2 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

Thank You, Sir  🙃

That's one I still use frequently but rarely hear.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Rainin' like pourin' dried peas on a rawhide.

(Describing a heavy rain) It's a genuine toad strangler!

Edited January 30, 2025 by Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103

[Blackwater 53393]

My grandma used to say, “I’ll jerk a knot in yer tail!”

 

She also said “I’ll grab your tongue and yank you inside out!”

 

And her favorite when talking to me was, “Go cut me a switch!!”

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

......... did you also have to meet her behind the woodshed ?

[Warden Callaway]

I'm going to climb you like a ladder and kick the rungs out on the way down.

I'm going to get on you like ugly on an ape. 

[Alpo]

57 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

I willingly stand to be corrected.

      (I won't like it, but I'll stand 😉)

Saying the fighter plane had a 27 ft belt of ammo is like saying a rifle has a 30 round magazine.

 

An M16 has a 30 round magazine. An  m14 has a 20 round. M1, 8 round. M1 carbine, 15. K98 a 5.

 

Different rifles have different magazine capacities. It doesn't make sense the different fighter planes would all have the same belt length.

 

A Wildcat might have a 27-ft belt, while a Corsair have the 28 ft and a Spitfire have a 32 ft.

 

I have no idea of the length of any of those three planes I mentioned, but was trying to make the point that just because it's a fighter plane doesn't mean it's got a 27 foot belt of ammo.

 

That's one of them great stories like for unlicensed carnal knowledge and store high in transit and port out starboard home. It's just a story.

[Warden Callaway]

Knock down, drag out.

That's the spirit. 

Love thi neighbor. 

Over the top.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

4 hours ago, Alpo said:

It's just a story.

 

 

I didn't say I had the right of it, ........... it's just something I heard.

 

    ....... however; standardization amongst the guns makes a lot of sense .............  to me <blush>

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

15 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

My grandma used to say, “I’ll jerk a knot in yer tail!”

 

She also said “I’ll grab your tongue and yank you inside out!”

 

And her favorite when talking to me was, “Go cut me a switch!!”

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

That was my Dad's worst threat.  We had a weeping willow in the yard and he'd hand me his pocket knife to cut the switch with.  I tried getting away with a four inch switch once....only once!

 

"Put it back where you got it and bring me one about as long as your leg."  That was advice to live by...if you wanted to go on living.

Edited January 31, 2025 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Alpo]

I got spanked with a paddle-ball paddle, by my second grade teacher. I got spanked with one of those board of education paddles by various principals throughout my school career. I got spanked by my parents using the hand, the belt, and the razor strop. All this was simply a part of growing up. You're going to get spanked for something.

 

I got switched one time. And I made damn sure that whatever I was doing after that, if I got caught it would not be a heinous enough crime to be switched again.