OT: Curious sayings

IaLeo · Mar 17, 2015

I have lived nearly 80 years in NE Iowa with periods near the Minn. state line and across the Missouri in Bellevue, NE. I have heard some curious phrases, new and old:
1.New: lean in
2.New: go long
3.Old: Katy bar the door
4.Old: Root hog or die
5.Old: cut him(or me) some slack
Some here in Iowa wash (like wush) their clothes while others warsh their clothes.
What is your noted sayings?
IaLeo

oleclint · Mar 17, 2015

Not to shabby.

HillsofTn · Mar 17, 2015

My grandfather used to tell people who had done him a service:

"Much obliged til you're better paid"

When I was a young teenager, I asked him why he just didn't say "thank you" like my teenage friends and I would when we received a favor. His reply has stuck with me to this day.

"Boy, I am doing three things:

1. I acknowledge that I owe a debt for the favor.
2. I promise to return the favor.
3. I promise to repay the debt plus interest.

Those are the things an honest man does when he borrows from a friend."

rrlund · Mar 17, 2015

A little of what you fancy does you good. A tinkers damn. A pig in a poke. A word in edgeways. According to Hoyle. As keen as mustard.
Best bib and tucker. Bought the farm. Talk through your hat. A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Tom in TN · Mar 17, 2015

Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Tom in TN

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 17, 2015

Fine as frog's hair.

Mike (WA) · Mar 17, 2015

My dad said "My thanks until your better paid." I always took it to simply mean "thank you", without obligation (or promise) of something in return.

rbhuntn · Mar 17, 2015

Finer'n frog hair and better than pie

Whatever blows your skirt up

That boy is about as bright as a burnt out bulb in a dark room

Appreciate it I would rather owe you than beat you out of it

Ain't no bother

We'll make it as long as the creeks don't rise and God's willing

We got her fixed and its better than government work would of been

That's better than fresh fish in the fry'n pan

TomH in PA · Mar 17, 2015

"You didn't do me any @#$% good!"

Generally given after someone does something stupid that could have (or did) hurt someone else. As in:

Q: Oops, did I hurt you?
A: Well, you didn't do me any @#$% good!

Donald Lehman · Mar 17, 2015

Dumber'n a bag of hammers.

As free from brains as a frog is from feathers

Snow (or mud) up to the arszz of a seven foot Indian.

That thing hasn't got power enough to pull a settin' hen of a nest. (or a string outta a cat's a..)

Jumpin' around like a frog on a hotplate.

Crazier than an outhouse rat.

JMS/.MN · Mar 17, 2015

Good enough for who it"s for.....this ain"t no church we"re building....tighter than a bull"s axx in fly season....drier than a popcorn farht....that"s what she said....throw the bull over the fence some hay....manure the barn (clean the barn)....

Brendon Warren · Mar 17, 2015

He ain't the dumbest SOB in the world but he's in the top two.

JOCCO · Mar 17, 2015

Don't know if he's on foot or horse back!!!! Faster than greased lightning!!! Down for the count! The lights are on but no one is home or the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead!! Brighter than a burn out light bulb! He is Not running on all cylinders, clutch is slipping, stuck in low range! Worse than a monkey in smokehouse knocking down ham's!!

old-9 · Mar 17, 2015

Hotter than a fresh ______ fox in a forest fire!
The whole 9 yards.
Some I cannot clean up.

TL (Va) · Mar 17, 2015

"Rare as hen's teeth"

farmboy48 · Mar 17, 2015

come again when you can't stay so long.

good enough for a job this size

bison · Mar 17, 2015

When the going gets though the though get going

Tom in Ga · Mar 17, 2015

Close enough for guvment work.

Phil-mar Farms · Mar 17, 2015

He is one can short of a six pack.

TimnVa · Mar 17, 2015

Smarter than a circus mule

Mike(NEOhio) · Mar 17, 2015

He couldn't pour water out of a boot if the directions were printed on the heel.

Mike (WA) · Mar 17, 2015

He's not the dumbest guy I ever saw, but he's got all the tools.

Goose · Mar 17, 2015

"He's kind of like Paul Revere's ride, a little light in the belfry".

willie in mn · Mar 17, 2015

Useless as a screen door on a submarine, or a door knob on a chimney.

37chief · Mar 17, 2015

Worthless as teets on a boar
Tighter than skin on a frog Stan

C. Amick · Mar 17, 2015

He's so windy that he could blow up and onion sack.

Bob Harvey · Mar 17, 2015

A quote from my son (aged 3) "poopy nnalert !".

shaun wallace · Mar 17, 2015

Buy him for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he is worth

Wemedeeres · Mar 17, 2015

Slicker than goose sh!t on a pump handle

DENNIS MIN · Mar 17, 2015

A good carpenter can count to ten.

D.

LAA · Mar 17, 2015

That boy is sharp as a bowling ball.

Couldn't find a gut shot elephant in a snow bank.

Couldn't hit a bull in the balls with a howitzer.

Couldn't scratch his a$$ with a hand full of fish hooks.

Pretty as a red heifer in a clover patch.

casenut1 · Mar 17, 2015

Don't force it , get a bigger hammer.

Pete in MD · Mar 17, 2015

Life is tough and it's even tougher if you're stupid.

Ya just can't please some people.

If you put a sailor in an empty padded room with two cannon balls and come back an hour later he'll have one broke and the other one lost.

Jeff B. · Mar 17, 2015

Busier than a one-eyed cat in a fish market.

T in NE · Mar 18, 2015

*** hole deep to a tall giraffe
knee high to a grasshopper
couldn't pull a wet noodle
knows as much about _____ as a (pee)-ant knows about going to the moon

Pitch · Mar 18, 2015

When the job is finished,
Ain't nothing left but to pizz on the fire and call in the dawgs!

HenryO · Mar 18, 2015

dont get your knickers in a twist, or dont get you undies in knots , dumber than a box of rocks, can't fix stupid, no matter what the situation, a pancake is flat on both side.

rbhuntn · Mar 18, 2015

worthless as teats on a boar hog

So stuck up that if it rains they'll drown

Better than a poke in the eye

Couldn't figure his way out of a wet paper bag

Dumber than an anchor

it'll hold till it breaks

barbed wire is sharper than that guy

A rock has more common sense

INCase · Mar 18, 2015

busier than a one armed paper hanger.

Busier than a cat trying to cover sh*t on a hot tin roof.

biggerred · Mar 18, 2015

They use to say my dad was "tighter than the bark on a tree".

oldmisterbill · Mar 18, 2015

I otta send you out in the street to play with your mental blocks, but I don't want you out there with nothing to do

Anonymous-0 · Mar 18, 2015

Amazing how many times these old saws get repeated here.

Here's one that I haven't seen here.........maybe I missed it.

"Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm"

Oliver662011 · Mar 18, 2015

Nervous as a wh**e in church.

ETxJohn · Mar 19, 2015

I"ll owe you forever before I beat you out of it

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