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Here is a idea for a new thread.

You must have daft or eccentric sayings in the US as we do over here. Perhaps they are regional sayings or things your granny used to say.

I thought it would be good to share them on this thread to see how local or how international they might be.

I’ll kick off with two from the UK

The first is from the Midlands where I grew up and it’s what people say if it looks like it is going to rain. The saying goes

“Its black over Bill’s mother’s.”

There is no such person as Bill or his mother it’s just a way of saying its going to rain.

The next one is I think originates from the north of England but is used all over the UK to express that you have just heard something that has really surprised you. The saying goes.

“Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs.”

So go on, share some of your eccentric sayings – you must have some!

Eccentric hugs, Janiliz xx

This one is from my grandpa's day...and I'll clean it up a bit because, though my grandpa didn't swear in front of us girls much, he did when he said this (and he cussed like a trucker in front of my brother and other male cousins!!! )

Slicker than cat covered 'crap' on a marble floor.

Presumably to indicate that something was slippery (i.e. wet floor, icy roads, etc...).

The visuals that brings to mind-stepping on a cat laying in dung-hmm....

I never really got this one that my dad said and it's kind of colorful and I hope it doesn't offend:

Colder than a witch's titty!

We're from WV.

Let's see what I can come up with...

Well, slap my "tush" and call me Sally. = You've got to be kidding me.

Have you fallen out of your tree? = Have you lost your mind?!

Man, I use these all the time and now that I want to type them up I can't seem to think of any. Isn't that always how it goes?

'A few sandwiches short of a picnic' meaning slightly unhinged is probably a universal one I think - but I heard a great ozzie version of it which is

" a few kangaroos short in the top paddock"

Any body know any others of this genre.

BTW Elsa 'I am loving slap my tush and call me sally' thank you for that one!

Here's one my granny used to say all the time: Drier than a popcorn fart. Meaning you're really thirsty. I have no idea where it came from. Thankfully, I haven't heard it in my adult life, lol!

I'm with Lizzie, I use a lot of them, because they make me and my hubby chuckle, but I can't think of any others right now.

Oh, wait! Rhonda, my Grandpa used to say, "Colder than a well digger's behind." Well, he didn't say behind, but you get the picture.

I still like "Stick a fork in me- I'm done."

Jayne, I think I smell another book. Oh, wait. I have a book of old sayings. I'll have to dig it out.

Grandpa hugs, Tina

Oh, I forgot one of my favorites. Dip me in butter and roll me in nuts. I think it has the same meaning as the Sally one.

These are from my great-grandmother, used by my mom:

When I would ask what time it is - "It's half past kissin' time, time to kiss again"

When I would ask how long something would take - "In two shakes of a lambs tail"

Oh and if you gossiped about someone from another family I would hear "You should make sure your own front door is swept before talking about another's house"

Post edited by: hopefull1, at: 05/10/2009 05:12 PM

-slicker than owl 'crap'

-you look like someone stole your all day sucker

-you can get glad in the same pants you got mad in

Here in the south you don't say you're about to do something you say "i'm fixin' to"

-tear your tail out of the frame

-well 'poop' fire and save the matches

gosh most of the ones I think of I can't repeat. They all have references to 'poop' or 'ladies of the night', etc. But I'm sure later some cleaner ones will come to me.

-if you lie with dogs, you gonna get fleas

-loose lips sink ships

if you have the "heart-dropsies" (could be a real medical condition) you drop down in the first chair you came to and don't have the heart to get up.

favorite endearing terms: scooter-pootn'(means just meandering/traveling by car running errands with no real destination) the mulley-grubs (don't know what this is really we use it b/c depression sounds so horrible) maters (tomatoes) taters (potatoes) okry (okra) sundy, mundy, toosdy,...saredy (days of the week) and my all time favorite purdy (pretty)

Wow! I could write a book, Jeff Foxworthy ain't got nothin' on me!

"All stove up." As in fibromites are almost constantly stove up. It means stiff and sore.

Old fashioned hugs.