Old Fashioned Sayings (how many, children, family, people)

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

My Mom used to write these down in a notebook and came up with some pretty funny ones.

Alot of mine are from the South because that is where my family is from but there are some good ones from all over.

In New England we used to hear a funny one when we would stop and ask for directions.

"You can't get there from here"

With relation to food in the South.

"That's so good, it would make you slap your Momma"

When my Grandmother (who was born and raised in Texas in 1898) asked me about my first apartment, she said:
"Its so small you can't cuss a cat without getting hair in your mouth."

Another one we used in the South was often said in my family with reference to how many churches you see around Texas.
My Grandmother used to say:

"You can't swing a cat without hitting a church around here".

I think most people have heard:
"I'm as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof"

I'm not sure what the southerners obsession with cats is all about but they come up alot in their sayings.

I heard a funny one that is pecular to the UK.

"She has more rabbit then Sainsbury's"
Rabbit refers to chatting and Sainsbury's is what I would call an upscale grocery store. So being familar with the saying, I had to visit while I was there.

[Cali BassMan]

A Man's gotta do what a Man's gotta do

[cool_mommy]

He has more (you fill in the blank) than Carter's got liver pills!

[ptsum]

"I'm about as busy as a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs".

"That's so good, your tongue will beat your mouth to death to get to it"

"I'm about as fine as frogs hair split three ways"

and as we used to say when we finished up, I reckon that'll do fer now.

[Tek_Freek]

More nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. (***Sniped***)

If his brains were dynamite he wouldn't have enough to blow up his head.

Those of you who think you know everything are particularly annoying to those of us who do.

[Marylandkitten]

..busier than a one legged man in a buttkicking contest!

[NC~Mom]

Children are to be seen and not heard. I hate the phrase.

[Lindsey_Mcfarren]

"I see said the blind man."

"Busier then a one armed paper hangor."

I use this one when I'm in public and an adult looses control and starts cussing like a sailor.
"Do you kiss your Mother with that mouth"

I heard this one on a British Murder mystery.
"I'd hate to have your nerve in my tooth."

"Burns like buggery."
I had a good laugh over this one, you guys should look up at the actual definition of buggery.

[studedude]

When we would disappear without telling mom where we went she would tell us,
"You're like a fart in a wind storm"

When we couldn't wait for something,
"You're like an impatient virgin"

My sister has a whole list of momism's. I'll not list the rest, she may want to publish someday.

[Tek_Freek]

Different version:

"I see", said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.