Unique sayings you have

[mvd]

I got a lot from my grandmother, but this is my fave: you'll notice in birthday threads, I always put "have your best yet!"

[A-Schwarzenegger]

1. This how I always greet the neighbors when they come over:

Get the hell off my property!

No, I'm known in my neighborhood as the "Have a snickerdoodle"
man because that's what I always say. I leave a lot of them
in my old mailbox at the end of the lane with a recording that
goes off when anybody walks by that says, "Have a snicklerdoodle, Partner!"

[khashka]

2. Many happy returns of the day

I put that on every single birthday card. It's become a family joke. I told my mom yesterday it should probably go on my tombstone - she wasn't quite sure whether to laugh or not.

Also, I tend to say 'needs must' which always requires explanation and 'chance would be a fine thing' which makes people act like I just started spouting gibberish.

All common English phrases but in America.... well, we don't speak the same language.

Khash.

[tjwmason]

9. I was wondering for a moment

As they didn't strike me as particularly odd - the old 2 countries divided by the same language thing.

My only contributions to the lexicon are "cheerybyes" as a parting term (a pretty obvious construction 'trainwrecking' cheerio and good bye - which I think does stand up to scrutiny in that it becomes a de facto contraction of " cheer be with you"); and as an expression of shock "bugger me backwards with a fish-fork" - I fear I can't remember the origin of that, it was way back at grammar school and I don't use it that much these days.

[terrya]

3. "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think"

Actually, that's Dorothy Parker, but gosh, it comes in handy so darned often.

[kwassa]

10. I use this one, too. When asked to use the word "horticulture"

[NoSheep]

13. Whore as in?

[blindpig]

4. "May your hemorrhoids shrink without surgery."

That from "Bored of the Rings"

"The truck, the driver and his gloves" from FZ's Uncle Meat

"The cat's pajamas" I'm showing my ago.

[meow2u3]

5. God didn't die and leave you in charge!

If you have nothing to hide, don't act like you're hiding something.

One my mom used to say:
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car.

[El Fuego]

6. "Tough toenails!"

Margaret Houlihan said this in the TV series MASH. It is sometimes a useful phrase.

"You don't like it? Tough toenails!!!!!"

[joneschick]

7. the answer's always no until you ask.

Daughter #3 insists that I include this one:
"two sinks,clean and empty, counter tops, stove and table"
That's apparently my mantra for describing what I expect when the kitchen is supposed to get done. It's a mom thing.

[Jara sang]

8. Love is a dung heap

and I am but a mere cock that climbs upon it to crow.

[kwassa]

11. I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

I don't know where I picked up that one from.

[LastKnight]

12. 2 of my favorite.

This Rocks like so much cheese!

Well, that sucks hot wet shit...


in either case, some things just do... lol

-LK