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dazes · Professional Joined: 08 May 2009 Posts: 1422

IF something is as clean as a whistle, how clean is that? I just said that and my husband said what does that really mean! Who comes up with this stuff? When my husband get's mad when he is doing repairs around the house he screams "You motherless Wh**e". No he isn't talking to me. My mother says " You talk like you have a paper ass." She has said that as far as I can remember, her brothers said it all the time. It's supposed to mean you act like you have $. Huh?? Does anyone else's family speak in these weird idioms or just mine?

amom · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:57 am Post subject:

No, just yours. Wink

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Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

My grandmother used to tell us "don't shoot a gift horse in the mouth." Which I thought was an excellent combination of two truthful idioms into one. (Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, don't shoot the messenger).
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Brant · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:59 am Post subject:

My grandmother said you "have to eat of peck of dirt before you die." In other words, quit bitching because you found a hair in your food or dropped your Tootsie Roll pop on the sidewalk.
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

My grandma says lots of crazy stuff... My wife and I are about the only people who know what she's talking about...

For example, she likes to remind me that lady bugs are good because they "eat the atheists off the plants." I know that she means "aphids" but I just let it go Smile

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Professor · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 358

We had a lot, but my two favorites were:

So what's not to like!

If you think I'm screwed up look at me!
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Amphikalein · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:26 am Post subject:

"I don't give a fuzzy rat's azz!" Or, sometimes just, "I don't give a fuzzy!" It used to be one of my Dad's favorite exclamations. That, and, "He couldn't tell his azz from a hole in the ground!"

My grandfather was likely to say "They got brakes" when driving, after he pulled his Rambler out in front of some other motorist.

My mom still reminisces about how her parents "used to get to jawing at each other," something my grandparents were good at (bickering.)
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Brant · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:26 am Post subject:

E, I'm staying away from your grandmother's house. Or, at the very least, staying off her plants. Wink

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amom · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:09 am Post subject:

My Mum (when we'd be crying for no apparent reason): "Do you want something to cry about? I'll give you something to cry about."
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SSSS · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

My grandfather had a saying that I never understood-it made me laugh but I never got an explaination-he would refer to an icy or wet road as "Slick as a fat blonds ass in fly time"

Any ideas anyone?
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Amphikalein · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:53 am Post subject:

"She looks like ten miles of bad road," or "She has a face that would stop an eight day clock." More of my Grandpap's typical sayings.
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amom · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:59 am Post subject:

"I don't have five cents in that nickel" (Mum) meaning my opinion doesn't matter.
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Amphikalein · Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:03 pm Post subject:

"Don't start none, won't be none," meaning, if you don't start trouble there won't be any trouble.
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

"When I put the bird seed out this morning they were on it like it was going out of style."

"Spark plug went bad on my riding tractor so I had to mow the lawn with the pushmower. It took forever and a day to get done with that."

"The Wal-Mark (sic) was packed today. You'd think they were givin' something away!"

I need to ask my wife about the rest of the grandma phrases... every sentence has a cookie cutter expression in it Smile

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