Strange sayings we use

[Spikedriver]

"Wound up tight as an 8 day clock"

"On the nuts", similar to "on the money".

"He could f*** up a free lunch"

"He could f*** up a one house paper route"...

 

[Peepaw from Tex]

Couldn't have a wet dream in the rain.

 

[Neb]

How about relatively new phrases that will lose there meaning in a generation or less?

Get on my computer

Is that involve sitting on a tower and using spurs to get it to run faster?

My computer crashed

No question a dog chasing a cat, maybe?

Ben

 

[Pearl]

...like molasses in winter time....

 

[Magus]

Tight as a jug.
Nothing is foolproof, that guy could wreck a tank with a rubber mallet.
three-dollar bill.
Rubber biscuit? (I'm old dammit!)

 

[jazzy]

hes as worthless as gum on a boot heel

 

[jazzy]

Kiss my go-to-hell

 

[LadyLocust]

Mel, kiss my grits

Actually Magus reminded me of one:
Tight as bark on wood

 

[Peanut]

"That woman will be late for her own funeral" Real common locally.

True story, my mom collected lunch money at an elementary school. Used to see a little boy with bright red hair each week. Asked him once 'Where did you get all that red hair?' Kid didn't hesitate, he said "From the milkman!"

It became a joke in my family to this day. Might ask a kid.. Where'd you get those or that, hair, eyes, etc, from the milkman?

 

[Magus]

A sorry mother nice guy...

 

[winds-of-change]

"That woman will be late for her own funeral" Real common locally.

True story, my mom collected lunch money at an elementary school. Used to see a little boy with bright red hair each week. Asked him once 'Where did you get all that red hair?' Kid didn't hesitate, he said "From the milkman!"

It became a joke in my family to this day. Might ask a kid.. Where'd you get those or that, hair, eyes, etc, from the milkman?

The funny thing is, my Dad WAS the milk man. He owned a milk route back in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s.

 

[Magus]

"Miller time"

 

[LadyLocust]

"That woman will be late for her own funeral" Real common locally.

True story, my mom collected lunch money at an elementary school. Used to see a little boy with bright red hair each week. Asked him once 'Where did you get all that red hair?' Kid didn't hesitate, he said "From the milkman!"

It became a joke in my family to this day. Might ask a kid.. Where'd you get those or that, hair, eyes, etc, from the milkman?

The funny thing is, my Dad WAS the milk man. He owned a milk route back in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s.

My gpa was raised on a dairy so his dad was the milk-man. Five kids, first 4 were just over 5’ tall, fifth was 6’ tall. They all looked alike. Anyhoo the joke was that he was the milkman’s son

 

[Heartbroken]

I don't know where I got this one, if I heard it at some point in the misty distant past, or if I made it up, but my coworkers lost it when during a meeting I referred to an obnoxious fellow as "a real horse's patoot". I've used that for years, I guess that was just the first time they had heard me do so. The meeting ended in an atmosphere of hilarity.

 

[Spikedriver]

The funny thing is, my Dad WAS the milk man. He owned a milk route back in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s.