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In reply to the discussion: Did your parents, grandparents, etc have any weird expressions? [View all]davsand
(13,421 posts)42. "Too windy to haul gravel" would be a VERY high wind!
What a nice mental image! That must have been a job he REALLY didn't want to do!
I've posted on here before about my Dad and how colorful he was with speech. I'll share a few more of his sayings here:
"Colder than a mother in law's kiss..."
"Dumber than an oyster..."
"As pretty as the north end of a southbound mule..."
"He's/she's a horse's rosette..."
"Ya gotta be smarter than the dog..."
"If brains were gunpowder he/she couldn't blow his/her nose..."
I have to stop now. This could go on for a long time!
Laura
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Every time I think about it, I feel like my brain is on fire in terror.
Manifestor_of_Light
Jun 2012
#68
Whenever I'd ask my dad if we could do this or that (usually involving cash expenditure)...
bluesbassman
Jun 2012
#10
CARE ads, iirc. My uncle called me out for being skinny as a teen by calling me a CARE ad. lol
EFerrari
Jun 2012
#13
"When my ship comes in" was my mother's standard response whenever I asked her if she
smokey nj
Jun 2012
#22
All of my Grandparents were Slovak, so the translation to English isn't quite the same but,
livetohike
Jun 2012
#25
My grandmother called the kneading cats do "making butter". My other grandmother used to
applegrove
Jun 2012
#63
also: "By the Borey-eyed Johnson". (I expect it's of Swedish origin) . . . n/t
annabanana
Jun 2012
#71
My Nana taught me to "swear" when I was 3. Whenever I was upset I was to say,
GreenPartyVoter
Jun 2012
#74
"I was raised in the sticks," then he'd point somewhere. "Act like a monkey!" meaning
Honeycombe8
Jun 2012
#76