Fri Mar 24, 2017, 11:41 AM

LOL Lib (1,462 posts)

Do you know any old "sayings" or phrases that are humorous or interesting?

This morning I replied to a thread and I was reminded of an old phrase my Great Grandpa used. I have always been fascinated by our language and how it has evolved. I enjoy watching old shows like Twilight Zone and notice subtle changes from as little as 50 years ago.

Anyway, my Great Grandpa had alot of "sayings." The one I used in my reply was, "Go to hell and pump thunder." I will not pretend to know exactly how this phrase came into existence, but I can see how thunder and hell could both be considered bad things.

Do any of you have any phrases from your past that have fallen out of use? I would really like to hear them, even if they are still used but possibly not known to younger generations. I can remember other things my Great Grandpa said, but not all of them would be suitable for the forum.

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Do you know any old "sayings" or phrases that are humorous or interesting? (Original post)	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	OP
Trump makes me as nervous as a long tailed cat	Dustlawyer	Mar 2017	#1
That is awesome!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#3
My Swedish grandmother had one that I use quite often.	Arkansas Granny	Mar 2017	#2
Love it!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#4
I like that one.	Iggo	Mar 2017	#6
I like the "Bob" ones.	Iggo	Mar 2017	#5
Haha! Yes I have heard those for sure.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#8
Yessiree BobTAIL!	trof	Apr 2017	#176
Crazy as a	Floyd R. Turbo	Mar 2017	#7
Love this one too.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#9
Never teach a pig to sing...	WePurrsevere	Mar 2017	#10
Awesome examples!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#11
Just remembered: "Hurry up kid, you are slower than Christmas and it only comes around once a year!"	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#39
Lol! I haven't heard that one in eons.	WePurrsevere	Mar 2017	#42
Aww! That is cute!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#44
I've heard that one too but my dad...	WePurrsevere	Mar 2017	#46
and a quarter to his balls	Marthe48	Mar 2017	#150
Probably 'half -past'?	trof	Apr 2017	#175
Yes, that's right. I don't know why I messed that up...	WePurrsevere	Apr 2017	#187
Two hairs past a freckle. (No watch)	trof	Apr 2017	#182
Cool... I've not heard it that way before. nt	WePurrsevere	Apr 2017	#188
Never 'TRY' to teach a pig to sing...	trof	Apr 2017	#177
That would probably be more accurate...	WePurrsevere	Apr 2017	#186
"Pig in a parlour," or "a bull in a china closet,"	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#214
Another one I just remembered, "Trump is so ugly he would stop an 8 day clock!"	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#12
If my dog looked like Trump, I'd shave his butt and make him walk backwards! n/t	brewens	Mar 2017	#155
That's a great one!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#166
If you can't say anything nice,	MosheFeingold	Mar 2017	#13
Yiddish wins the thread!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#17
"Come sit by me". - Alice Roosevelt	trof	Apr 2017	#181
Finer than	Hayduke Bomgarte	Mar 2017	#14
Very fine indeed!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#18
Spit three ways. eom	littlemissmartypants	Mar 2017	#106
My Mom's Favorite	Bayard	Mar 2017	#15
Ah yes, I'm guilty of this unfortunately.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#19
My grandmother said that a lot.	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#213
I can guarantee that this is hardly used	TlalocW	Mar 2017	#16
Oooh those are very colorful. Thanks!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#20
Another version of the "Is the Pope Catholic?" reply is "Is a bullfrog waterproof?"	pinboy3niner	Mar 2017	#21
LOL, does a fat hog fart?	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#22
Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?	OxQQme	Mar 2017	#52
OMG!!!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#56
Does a goose go barefoot? Does a bear sh*t in the woods?	Grammy23	Mar 2017	#48
Busier than a one-armed paper hanger	frogmarch	Mar 2017	#23
Busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#24
:-D	frogmarch	Mar 2017	#26
Yes!	whathehell	Mar 2017	#72
Busier than a one armed man in an ass kicking contest!	trof	Apr 2017	#179
Haha	LOL Lib	Apr 2017	#183
With fleas (NT)	amerikat	Mar 2017	#154
My mom used to call me a	frogmarch	Mar 2017	#25
I have never heard that one! It is very appropriate when seen in the pic next to a huge horse!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#27
When my mom had had enough of her children's behavior	TeapotInATempest	Mar 2017	#28
My dad would tell us to go play on the freeway!	Dustlawyer	Mar 2017	#32
Is it terrible that this made me laugh?	TeapotInATempest	Mar 2017	#33
If the kids were running around my husband would tell them what his grampa used to tell him	appleannie1943	Mar 2017	#65
Hahaha never heard that one!	VOX	Apr 2017	#184
my mom's version "Hells Bells and Panther Tracks" no I don't know why nt	yellowdogintexas	Apr 2017	#220
"Doomed if you do and doomed if you don't."	pinboy3niner	Mar 2017	#29
I still hear it, but damned if you do, and damned if you don't.	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#215
If I tell you a chicken has lips, look under her wing for a can of Skoal.	brush	Mar 2017	#30
One of my	Faux pas	Mar 2017	#31
"Sometimes you kill the bear, sometimes the bear kills you"	oberliner	Mar 2017	#34
the rooster crows, but the hen delivers the goods	Skittles	Mar 2017	#35
I'm totally going to be using this one!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#36
Every time Grandpa drove past the cemetery	FakeNoose	Mar 2017	#37
It is hilarious, I'm going to file that one away to use on my kids and grandkids.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#38
The old one	GP6971	Mar 2017	#160
My uncle always said something like that. He said "the water around here isn't fit to drink.	japple	Mar 2017	#43
the compliment to the cemetery one is....	JCinNYC	Apr 2017	#219
"It's colder than a well digger's ass in Alaska."	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#40
Cold enough to freeze the nuts off a steel bridge.	OxQQme	Mar 2017	#53
Nice!!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#57
My dad always said "It is cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey".	appleannie1943	Mar 2017	#63
Finding the origin of these old sayings is the most fascinating part to me.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#80
I thought it meant that brass didn't freeze	oldcynic	Apr 2017	#196
On a ship, the plate was called a monkey. It was made of brass. It had indentations for	appleannie1943	Apr 2017	#205
Colder than the north side of a south bound polar bear.	GoneOffShore	Mar 2017	#142
"He's so stupid he couldn't piss a hole straight in the snow."	The Velveteen Ocelot	Mar 2017	#41
Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra was the one I heard. ROFL!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#45
One really cold day this past winter, a friend of mine.....	lastlib	Mar 2017	#74
That is full of WIN! She sure looks and acts like a wicked witch!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#81
"Doesn't have the sense God gave geese".	TuxedoKat	Mar 2017	#47
Ooh that one is nasty but I like it! :D	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#49
Oh go fry ice! . . n/t	annabanana	Mar 2017	#50
I used to fry ice cream!!	SwissTony	Apr 2017	#180
As	Turbineguy	Mar 2017	#51
LOL that's extremely fucked up.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#58
Sucks like a soup bean sandwich	Marthe48	Mar 2017	#151
Very appropriate saying for the Trump supporters "They bought	doc03	Mar 2017	#54
Ahh I have heard this one, but never understood what it meant.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#59
I quess back years ago when there was a shortage meat you could buy	doc03	Mar 2017	#64
Pig in a poke might have originated in Western Pennsylvania	FakeNoose	Mar 2017	#70
Are yinz from Picksburgh?	dchill	Mar 2017	#107
Yep	FakeNoose	Mar 2017	#122
About 75 miles north.	dchill	Mar 2017	#137
One origin story I heard	Nac Mac Feegle	Mar 2017	#139
My understanding too . If it is in a poke look inside and make sure you got a piggie	lunasun	Mar 2017	#163
An old Bluegrass Kentucky saying -	dinger130	Mar 2017	#55
Took me a minute, but I now I get it.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#60
Hustle your bustle	mercuryblues	Mar 2017	#61
It ain't over till the fat lady sings.	appleannie1943	Mar 2017	#62
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth" you can determine how old a	doc03	Mar 2017	#66
Ah brilliant! Never quite understood this one until now.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#82
I read that if President Truman wanted to have a drink with someone.	dubyadiprecession	Mar 2017	#67
That is as good a reason to drink as I can imagine. :)	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#83
If it ain't broke, don't fix it	cos dem	Mar 2017	#68
I use this one and believe that it is a wise creed to live by.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#85
to quote my old infantry platoon sergeant	TEB	Mar 2017	#69
Love it! Someone needs to send this to Drumpf!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#86
My chiropractor laughed out loud	madamesilverspurs	Mar 2017	#71
I have heard it but never really understood the origin.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#87
Lots I can't remember but one has always stuck with me	rurallib	Mar 2017	#73
The pork chop one is classic. I love them all.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#89
Rodney Dangerfield	Marthe48	Mar 2017	#152
I think this is pretty southern,	Laffy Kat	Mar 2017	#75
I am from the south too! I have heard versions of that.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#96
I'm fixin' to be all over you like a rooster on a June bug	luvMIdog	Mar 2017	#76
Haha!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#97
Good quotes are as rare as rocking horse shit!	Doodley	Mar 2017	#77
That one is a keeper! I never heard it before and will enjoy using it!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#94
My mom would always say "I am mad about....."(insert something she	applegrove	Mar 2017	#78
That is actually very cute.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#99
She was scientific. A one and only. Her father was born in 1882. Her mom	applegrove	Mar 2017	#111
Tough titties, said the kitty, when the milk ran dry	Kimchijeon	Mar 2017	#79
I learned the tough titty one a little differently...	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#92
My dad was a man of very few words, and never used profanity.	3catwoman3	Mar 2017	#84
LOL	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#91
Mom had a few. Can only think of 2 right now:	Panich52	Mar 2017	#88
Cat fur to make kitten britches! I have heard!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#90
Couple more...	Panich52	Mar 2017	#117
Rofl	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#123
New one. :)	Panich52	Mar 2017	#143
"Raining like a cow pissin on a flat rock"	pnwest	Mar 2017	#93
LMAO	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#95
Another southern sayin':	Laffy Kat	Mar 2017	#98
Laffy Kat, you just described Donald J. Drumpf to a tee!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#100
You're right!	Laffy Kat	Mar 2017	#110
"Every day above ground is a good day."	Adsos Letter	Mar 2017	#101
We had a retired Baptist minister that lived across the street when I was a teen.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#103
They put whitey on the moon,	Rollo	Mar 2017	#102
Drumpf "doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#104
Shinola was a brand of shoe polish way back when	Trailrider1951	Mar 2017	#109
Thanks!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#124
Remember the song "What a Wonderful World"	Wolf Frankula	Mar 2017	#161
It's now a wristwatch brand...	VOX	Apr 2017	#189
When you reach the end of your rope	Lebam in LA	Mar 2017	#105
Being born here doesn't make you a southerner;	missingthebigdog	Mar 2017	#108
The best cures for depression	Jamaal510	Mar 2017	#112
My mom: " I only trust him as far as I can throw him" and "Handsome is as Handsome does"	wishstar	Mar 2017	#115
I like that !	lunasun	Mar 2017	#170
learning is a series of mistakes	Hamlette	Mar 2017	#113
So true!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#126
He was shakin' ...	sl8	Mar 2017	#114
That is such a good one, it paints a vivid picture!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#128
An old one I still use	Wolf Frankula	Mar 2017	#116
Haha!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#127
You'll shit	pressbox69	Mar 2017	#118
Omg! I remember that but haven't heard since my gramps passed.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#125
Even a blind hog gets an acorn now and then	Cairycat	Mar 2017	#119
Great ones!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#129
A variant: Trump thinks he's hot shit on a silver platter...	VOX	Apr 2017	#185
Less civilized people "lived out in the tules."	hunter	Mar 2017	#120
He's an asshole from the word 'go'.	mikeargo	Mar 2017	#121
I have heard it and grew up down south.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#132
"He didn't know whether to shit or go blind so	retread	Mar 2017	#147
Some are personal, some I just like.	Behind the Aegis	Mar 2017	#130
Love them all!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#133
My Dad used to tell my brother	redstatebluegirl	Mar 2017	#131
Oh that's a good one! I heard a less colorful version...	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#134
Geez, we & our grandparents weren't nearly the snowflakes of today.	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#212
When someone gets you mad, tell them to...	mikeargo	Mar 2017	#135
Good one sir.	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#136
Or to go pound sand	lunasun	Mar 2017	#164
Mean as a junkyard dog. More...	Alice11111	Mar 2017	#138
Red or yellow, black or white...	radical noodle	Apr 2017	#204
Yeah, that too. Sorry.	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#207
My mom and grandmother would be pleased	radical noodle	Apr 2017	#216
Oh good, grandmothers are the best.	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#217
A new one that I heard somewhere:	Nac Mac Feegle	Mar 2017	#140
If one of us kids turned our noses up on some foods, especially if she went to lengths to make it,	Thor_MN	Mar 2017	#141
Where were you when the brains were handed out?	ailsagirl	Mar 2017	#144
Jackson......	fNord	Mar 2017	#145
You're about as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle...	Callmecrazy	Mar 2017	#146
Can we go foreign? At a Bengali wedding, you wear a pith hat	Recursion	Mar 2017	#148
Courtesy of my Grandad	Dakotacrat	Mar 2017	#149
Yes, by cracky! "Squealin' like a pig under a gate" is one. I'll think of some more. n/t	brewens	Mar 2017	#153
By cracky!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#167
Action talks	Metsie Casey	Mar 2017	#156
I thought it was BS talks, and action walks.	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#211
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (NT)	amerikat	Mar 2017	#157
You're sweet enough to pour on a plate and sop up with a biscuit.	wyldwolf	Mar 2017	#158
One of my first camping trips I was told for the first of many times	rurallib	Mar 2017	#159
OMG!!!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#168
I don't think so - just a wee(hehe) bit stunned	rurallib	Mar 2017	#172
If Pigs had wings, they'd be pigeons.	Wolf Frankula	Mar 2017	#162
Land sakes!	Marthe48	Mar 2017	#165
Great List!	LOL Lib	Mar 2017	#169
Slicker than snot on a glass doorknob.	Jane Austin	Mar 2017	#171
Variant: Slicker'n owl shit on suede shoes.	VOX	Apr 2017	#192
From me Irish mother after I did a not so good job of a chore...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Mar 2017	#173
Watching "Mountain Monsters" & heard another one fm WV:	Panich52	Apr 2017	#174
Lmao!	LOL Lib	Apr 2017	#178
Do my best to add to such lists :). Will try to chk back	Panich52	Apr 2017	#200
just saw this on FB	mattvermont	Apr 2017	#190
Were you standing behind the door when God was handing out the brains?	Still Blue in PDX	Apr 2017	#191
Well, heres a few I recall.	Jack-o-Lantern	Apr 2017	#193
"I don't care if it harelips the governor!"	VOX	Apr 2017	#194
I'm so mad I could spit tacks!	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2017	#195
so many memories...	oldcynic	Apr 2017	#197
"Hitch in your getalong," means someone is limping or walking funny,	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#210
My grandpa used to say	Texasgal	Apr 2017	#198
"I didn't how him from Adam's housecat" (my mom)......	steve2470	Apr 2017	#199
My grandmother had a New Glasgow, Nova Scotia accent. She used	applegrove	Apr 2017	#201
one my mom liked	lost-in-nj	Apr 2017	#202
Here Are a Couple	Leith	Apr 2017	#203
Has anyone said	littlemissmartypants	Apr 2017	#206
He's pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining.	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#208
"His/my give a shitter is broken."	Alice11111	Apr 2017	#209
My wife has a girlfriend who knows the ultimate single woman's lament	DFW	Apr 2017	#218

Response to LOL Lib (Original post)

Fri Mar 24, 2017, 11:44 AM

Dustlawyer (10,198 posts)

1. Trump makes me as nervous as a long tailed cat

in a rocking chair factory!

Do you know any old "sayings" or phrases that are humorous or interesting?

1. Trump makes me as nervous as a long tailed cat

3. That is awesome!

2. My Swedish grandmother had one that I use quite often.

4. Love it!

6. I like that one.

5. I like the "Bob" ones.

8. Haha! Yes I have heard those for sure.

176. Yessiree BobTAIL!

7. Crazy as a

9. Love this one too.

10. Never teach a pig to sing...

11. Awesome examples!

39. Just remembered: "Hurry up kid, you are slower than Christmas and it only comes around once a year!"

42. Lol! I haven't heard that one in eons.

44. Aww! That is cute!

46. I've heard that one too but my dad...

150. and a quarter to his balls

175. Probably 'half -past'?

187. Yes, that's right. I don't know why I messed that up...

182. Two hairs past a freckle. (No watch)

188. Cool... I've not heard it that way before. nt

177. Never 'TRY' to teach a pig to sing...

186. That would probably be more accurate...

214. "Pig in a parlour," or "a bull in a china closet,"

12. Another one I just remembered, "Trump is so ugly he would stop an 8 day clock!"

155. If my dog looked like Trump, I'd shave his butt and make him walk backwards! n/t

166. That's a great one!

13. If you can't say anything nice,

17. Yiddish wins the thread!

181. "Come sit by me". - Alice Roosevelt

14. Finer than

18. Very fine indeed!

106. Spit three ways. eom

15. My Mom's Favorite

19. Ah yes, I'm guilty of this unfortunately.

213. My grandmother said that a lot.

16. I can guarantee that this is hardly used

20. Oooh those are very colorful. Thanks!

21. Another version of the "Is the Pope Catholic?" reply is "Is a bullfrog waterproof?"

22. LOL, does a fat hog fart?

52. Does Dolly Parton sleep on her back?

56. OMG!!!

48. Does a goose go barefoot? Does a bear sh*t in the woods?

23. Busier than a one-armed paper hanger

24. Busier than a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest!

26. :-D

72. Yes!

179. Busier than a one armed man in an ass kicking contest!

183. Haha

154. With fleas (NT)

25. My mom used to call me a

27. I have never heard that one! It is very appropriate when seen in the pic next to a huge horse!

28. When my mom had had enough of her children's behavior

32. My dad would tell us to go play on the freeway!

33. Is it terrible that this made me laugh?

65. If the kids were running around my husband would tell them what his grampa used to tell him

184. Hahaha never heard that one!

220. my mom's version "Hells Bells and Panther Tracks" no I don't know why nt

29. "Doomed if you do and doomed if you don't."

215. I still hear it, but damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

30. If I tell you a chicken has lips, look under her wing for a can of Skoal.

31. One of my

34. "Sometimes you kill the bear, sometimes the bear kills you"

35. the rooster crows, but the hen delivers the goods

36. I'm totally going to be using this one!

37. Every time Grandpa drove past the cemetery

38. It is hilarious, I'm going to file that one away to use on my kids and grandkids.

160. The old one

43. My uncle always said something like that. He said "the water around here isn't fit to drink.

219. the compliment to the cemetery one is....

40. "It's colder than a well digger's ass in Alaska."

53. Cold enough to freeze the nuts off a steel bridge.

57. Nice!!

63. My dad always said "It is cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey".

80. Finding the origin of these old sayings is the most fascinating part to me.

196. I thought it meant that brass didn't freeze

205. On a ship, the plate was called a monkey. It was made of brass. It had indentations for

142. Colder than the north side of a south bound polar bear.

41. "He's so stupid he couldn't piss a hole straight in the snow."