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My favorite idiom is “to pound sand in a rathole” to denote a hard job. I’ve always wondered what/who prompted that phrase. Maybe the same person who came up with “nailing jello to a tree”. I’m not sure which I’d rather try. Cindy 2ReplyCancel

I’m not for sure if this is what you’re looking for but I have a tendency to use the saying, “choke a horse.” For instance we have enough weeds to choke a horse!ReplyCancel

My husband always says “I’ll be back before you can whistle dixie”.
One of these days I will surprise him.
ThanksReplyCancel

A phrase I use a lot is one I picked up from a friend I met years ago. Instead of a “bad” word I say “rats in a ditch”.ReplyCancel

My nana’s favorite~~”The Cat’s Pajama’s”—-huh???????????ReplyCancel

ok, I laughed, but I really don’t get it… ‘asked hubby for one and here is what he said:
some asks–> “where’s Jim? (or whoever)”
answer–> “up a hogs [butt] lookin’ for a ham sandwich”
I substituted so I could keep it clean…
hey, he’s a cop…I’m sure there will be more… sorry… :(ReplyCancel

In our family… a favorite idiom was was “he smokes like a fish”. This was to comment on a person who smokes a great number of cigarettes each day. A bit unique I think as fish don’t actually smoke.ReplyCancel

My dh likes to say, “fine as frog’s fuzz.” Thanks for the chance to win. You are sooo generous.ReplyCancel

when I was young and i wanted to know how much something my mum just bought cost – she used to say “money and fair words”. Another one was if you wanted to know what something was, adults would say “leo’s for meddlers” – I still don’t know what the latter one means or where it derived from!!!

Great giveaway by the way!

Paula x x xReplyCancel

When I was a young girl, an aunt asked me if “my ears had been burning” that morning. Then she explained that she had been talking about me that morning with someone else and that maybe “my ears were burning” because of that. Hmmmmmmmm. DMorganReplyCancel

no much of an idiom-ist quoter.. hehe…
but i’ve heard my uncle say ” geez Louise” to a friend of his…so we all thought her name was Louise… hahaha … it was Ann…. doh!

thanks for the chance to win your doubles =)

juliReplyCancel

My Mom’s favorite was “When pigs fly!”ReplyCancel

my favorite idiom is ” Lights are on…but nobody’s at home!”….which is what many people are guilty of at times including myself…when the tongue engages before the brain has a chance to think about what to say!
As always Becca your blogs and your projects are always amazing! Thank you for this opportunity to win this fabulous Blog Candy!ReplyCancel

I remember so many, my Mother would always say that I was just “a chip off the old block” , her opinion that I was so much like my Dad. Another one she would say “slow as fog off manure on a cold morning”. As I grew up in the country with cows, I could understand that one at a young age.
Thanks so much for a chance to win, your cards are “eye candy” each day, hey there is another saying.

Darlene JReplyCancel

My teenage boys think I am just weird when I say, “It’s half a dozen of one and 6 of another!”ReplyCancel

When an older friend of mine is asked her age, she replies “As old as my tongue and older than my teeth.” I always laugh.

I love all of your gorgeous creations and have to say I’ve been guilty of my share of double play purchases.ReplyCancel

Our saying was “Everyone is kind of crazy, but thee and me, and sometimes I worry about thee!” Thanks for the chance to win the blog candy!ReplyCancel

Some fun reading here. Always such good questions for your blogs. will be coming back to see what others have to say. My dad had some fun comments. One was when someone would ask what time it was…half a freckle past a hair…. No watch.
Or how much something cost…. A dollar three ninty five. That one had lots of people doing a double take.
A response to someone’s noisy question…. Nunya!… short for none of your business.
Thanks for having such fun blogs. Have been using quite a few of your ideas in cards and others have been eating them up.ReplyCancel

I am Pennsylvania Dutch so we have alot of them. One I always use is, “Go outten the lights”.ReplyCancel

Love your blog. Love to win blog candy.
At work one day, just as my shift was over, I said “It’s time to fly the coop”. A couple young co-workers looked at me with that huh look. I had to exlain what I meant.
I will be back tomorrow with another one.ReplyCancel

An idiom I used just the other day is “she will get her just desserts”. A friend of mine was relating to me how a co-worker of hers had gotten away with not doing her job for a very long time. Now all of a sudden the company is on to her slacking and she is being watched very closely. I remarked that in due time she would get her just desserts for not doing her job for so long.

Thanks for the opportunity to win another great prize.

Sally GasparriReplyCancel

Oh! I remember Laura’s silver wear one. lol
My Grandmother used to ask if you wanted a whole sandwich or a “Door Shut.” That’s just one slice of bread folded over the filling. I get some strange looks when I use that one.
mary l.ReplyCancel

I think my favorite idiom was “When Pigs Fly.” There’s a great children’s bool Tuesday just about this saying.

Thanks for the chance to win!

Shawn K.ReplyCancel

My mom always says, “You’ll catch more flies with honey than vinegar”, meaning that you get along with people better if you’re sweet, but I always thought to myself, why do I want to catch any flies at all? Thanks for sharing your talent and your double purchases!ReplyCancel

I have never understood the saying “I need as bad as another hole in my head”??? Seriously? Some of the stuff we say is weird! Thanks for the opportunity to enter!ReplyCancel

My Irish mother always says “it’s teaming rain” when it’s raining heavily.ReplyCancel

Looks like you have some great candy yet again!
Here’s an idiom that rings true: A Picture Paints a Thousand Words.
(idioms are a fun topic–I tutor kids at the local high school who have come over from other countries with very limited English–idioms are particularly hard for them)!

Thanks for a chance to win!
Hope all is well with you and your husband!ReplyCancel

My mother and now me and my siblings say ” Got to get back to my rat killin” just to say get back to work. I now have my sis-in-law tell me that over the phone. I must say it a lot!!ReplyCancel

I’m not sure this is an idiom, but my Grandaddy always referred to things being as “stubborn as a Missouri” or “kicking like a Kentucky.” I never understood what he meant. He finally told me one day that this was the way to know what kind of a mule (or problem) you were dealing with. If it kicked you, it was Kentucky mule. If it just wouldn’t budge…well, then you knew it was a Missouri mule!ReplyCancel

My favorite idom is: You are the apple of my eye. My Father used to say it and I could never figure out how he got an apple in his eye.
Thanks for all the gifts. They are awesome.ReplyCancel

When everything seemed to be going wrong, my dad used to say “Nothings ever so bad that it couldn’t be worse”……ReplyCancel

Hi Becca,
Thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy. It took me a while to come up with a huh but since we are from Penna dutch country it was then a litte easier. As kids we were always told to “pick up the floor” when mom wanted us to do some cleaning. My friends would do a huh when it came out of my mouth.
Blessings,
KimReplyCancel

Mine is like Darlene J only with a little bit added. My dad always said,
I was a chip off the old block and the last splinter.

Thanks for the opportunity to win you awesome blog candy.ReplyCancel

Thanks for the oportunity to win more candy Becca,

one of my Mothers favourite saying was if you dropped something and it broke she would often say “that’s gone for a burton”

coming originally from Yorkshire in England I’m wondering if over the years the dialect has changed and perhaps the saying really was “that’s gone for a button”

guess I’ll never knowReplyCancel

Hi Becca!
Thanks for the chance to win
because I am now a SAHM;;;I like…
“Father works from sun to sun, but Mother’s work is never done”.ReplyCancel

“I’m not trying to be difficult it just comes naturally”
All you work is’t amazing tanks for share.ReplyCancel

My father used to say he was going to see a man about a horse. He never came home with a horse however…I think he just didn’t want us to know what he was doing.

Thanks for all you do.ReplyCancel

There was so many so one of them was you act like you have ants in your pants which mean you act like you could not be still.ReplyCancel

One I’ve heard was “finer than frog hair” Now really do frog even have hair??? Thanks for another chance at some yummy candy.
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How about When asking timely question’s the answer would be When the Cows come home.
Thank you for the chance to win.ReplyCancel

My father was born and raised in Nebraska and when it got really cold,(even though we lived in Texas) he’d always say “it’s colder than a welldigger’s a## in Nebraska”.ReplyCancel

Becca

First of all thank you for your inspiration and sharing your talents with us.

When I was younger my Mom always said”you would argue with a fence post”.

I was always like, what??? Why would I talk to a post????

Now having kids of my own I understand the statement, but my boys just look at me like I am crazy when I say it to them! HA HA

Thanks for the chance to win such great blog candy

PamReplyCancel

My grandmother had many of them that I still use to day :)
about bad company to hang with “If you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas”..ReplyCancel

How about “sicker than a dog”.

Thanks Becca for the chance to win more blog candy – you are so generous! And I have purchased the same thing more than once as well – guess I REALLY liked it. : )ReplyCancel

I am from North Carolina and both my parents came from the “mountains”. My Dad used to hate when someone called on the phone and asked who he was and his comeback was: This is me, is that you?? Always caught them off guard! My uncle was a drill sgt and his fav saying was always, Don’t blow smoke up my rear and tell me it’s windy!! His wife always shushed him when we kids would bust out laughing!! Seems North Carolinians are full of sayings like my grandmother used to refer to diapers as hippens!
The one I heard a lot now in South Carolina is “that’ll stop that dog from sucking eggs!”
Love the blog candy and even though I never win, I feel compelled to play along! Kind of like having smoke blown at me!!ReplyCancel

My father always says “the nuts don’t fall far from the tree,” which has a perfectly clear meaning. More obscure was a saying from my grandmother, who was from the South. She would describe someone who didn’t have much going for him this way: “He’s as sorry as a mangy dog’s hind-end.” I could not figure out what she meant until I learned what a hind-end was as a little girl.

Becca, thanks for the inspiration and the wonderful blog candy. You are SO generous.ReplyCancel

You’ve got the life of Riley is what my MIL says to our Dog. Makes me lol when she says that.

This is great word game. Thanks so much from such a wonderful person.ReplyCancel

I think the most unusual saying was one my parents used when we asked where they were going – “Up a dry gully wheeling out smoke”!!

I will come up with a few others over the next week too – love this game as I am sure that with an international following you will get som wonderful saying.

Blessings
MaxineReplyCancel

‘The elevator does not go to the top floor’…I could not figure this out when I first heard it as there were no elevators around…LOL!
Thanks Becca for the blog candy chance!ReplyCancel

Something I only heard from my husband and he still says it. ” Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?” What the ?? I still don’t get it, but thanks for a chance at some candy.ReplyCancel

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth…what?!?!ReplyCancel

Thanks for a great candy once again Becca. Even I never win anything, I love how you always gets people to tell something funny, and it just takes forever to read you blog, as I have to read all these funny stories inhere ha ha ha.
Here in Denmark we have a much used saying, that´s this: Don´t cross the creek for water. This means: don´t take unnecessary troubles.
have a great week-end.
Big hugs MAryannReplyCancel

BECCA BECCA MY HUSBAND ALWAYS SAYS
” HE DOESN’T HAVE BOTH OARS IN THE WATER”
AND I NEVER KNEW WHAT HE MEANT. NOW I DO.

THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER CANDY BLOG. SURE
HOPE I AM LUCKY THIS TIME.

CYNTHIA BEYNONReplyCancel

One of my Mum’s favourite sayings when I was younger….”I don’t know if I’m on this earth or fullers”
she used to say it when she had a very busy day and rushing to catch up :0)
Thanks for the chance to win your lovely candy Becca :)
Have a wonderful day :0)
*hugs* Heather xReplyCancel

One saying I use all the time is “Whatever floats your boat!” LOL
Thank you so much for the chance to win your blog candy:)ReplyCancel

Some of these I have never heard of but one that always makes me laugh is “when pigs fly’. Good luck every one. As always Becca, TFS!!! :-DReplyCancel

Hi. This brings back memories of my dad saying “you can’t be stupider than stupid, so what’s your problem?” huh???? I thought the word stupid took care of everything so this was confusing. LOL.ReplyCancel

How about “go take a long walk on a short pier.” Thanks for your creativity and generosity. “You’re the cat’s meow.”ReplyCancel

my dad was raised on a farm when he was young then went into the navy when he was twenty so he had lots of ‘earthy’ sayings, most of which i wouldn’t be allowed to repeat. anyway, being a sailor he used to swear alot and my mom would shush him. one day he was so angry at someone, and us girls were listening, so instead of calling this guy an s.o.b. he said i hope your mother runs out from under the porch and bites you when you come home. we thought that was so funny picturing his mom trying to bite him. didn’t understand it ’til we got much older.

thanx for the beauty you create and share everyday with us. it always makes my day.ReplyCancel

Good Morning Becca! Some of these are hilarious!! How fun!

One that I heard and always made my imagination go into over drive was the description of something with a large hole in it was that the hold was ‘Large enough to throw a cat through!’ How big a hole does it take to get a cat through it?ReplyCancel

Dear Becca, I’m an italian fan of your blog, one of my favourite. I think is difficult, as like me, to understand an italian idioma for you. However, I share with you a nice exclamation to express a disappointment:” ACCI STRACCI” ( with the sweet “c”). In italian language have a pleasant sound!
Well, thanks a lot for the opportunity of my first blog candy.
Have a great weekend. Eulalia
P.S. Sorry for my bad english!!ReplyCancel

One I have heard from my mother “Hold your horses” . Thanks for a chance to win.ReplyCancel

Hi Becca
At last I can tach you something. lol.

Here in the Uk gas cookers used to have larger burners on the front so you put the pan on to boil on the front burner then you pushed it to the back one and left it to simmer. Also gas cookers bring things to the boil faster than electric.

So it means we’re all fired up and ready to go.

How about when you see someone rushing around trying to do something too fast.

Slow down or you’ll meet yourself coming back.

Love your blog
MalReplyCancel

Oh my gosh… I can’t get over all these sayings…. Wow!!
“I wish I was a fly on the wall”ReplyCancel

“I love you more than a whistle and a peck and a hug around the neck”…….Could that mean never ending love? It has been in my family for generations…
Great fun,
Thanks’ReplyCancel

One of my mother’s favorites: “Quit your whinin’ & pull up your bootstraps.”
But Mom, I’m wearing heels!ReplyCancel

Good morning, Becca! One of my favorite idoms is “that dog won’t hunt.” Can you tell I’m from the Deep South?ReplyCancel

“Fine as frog hair”
Thanks for being so generous with the blog candy.ReplyCancel

Thank you for the chance to win this awesome candy. I remember my Dad saying “Dumber than a box of rocks”. I still haven’t figured that one out.ReplyCancel

One I use when we leave later then we planned on is, We are off like a herd of turtles, not sure where I heard it from. Thanks for another chance for some blog candy.ReplyCancel

Thanks for the chance at some blog candy!
The saying I remember is
“Everyone is entitled to my opinion”.
(Of course, it was actually “Everyone is entitled to their opinion”, but I much prefer the first version….
DeniseBReplyCancel

I have heard people use the phrase, “Chip off the old block”.ReplyCancel

When ever we would say we had nothing to do my mom would respond “go run around the house”. When growing up on the farm if you had nothing to do you had to run around the barn. Thought it was funny till waiting for the school bus we all had to run around it.ReplyCancel

If someone took seconds of food at dinner before they had finished their firsts, my grandmother would say “Someone’s coming hungry” meaning we could expect company to arrive soon… No idea where that one came from…ReplyCancel

One we have used many times is “When life gives you lemons make lemonade.ReplyCancel

My Mum always used to “Y’s a crooked letter and you can’t make it straight” when we used to ask her why??? questions. I then used it with my kids, tee hee

Love your blog and always check it, you are a great inspiration to us our here. I have no idea how you come up with so many fabulous creations, but glad you do!!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca,
…when pigs fly..
Thanks! I visit daily to see all you
absolutely amazing creations.
Thanks for sharing you inspirations!ReplyCancel

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Love reading all the saying.ReplyCancel

My Dad would say, its hotter than blue blazes! Thanks for all the inspiration!!ReplyCancel

My dad used to say “Mind you P’s and Q’s. I know what he meant but I wonder where that one came from?
thanks becca for the great candy and for all of your wonderful creations.ReplyCancel

My grandmother’s favorite was, “Two shakes of a lambs tail,” as in you better get up to the house in two shakes of a lambs tail. I always wondered how long that was since she lived on a dairy farm.ReplyCancel

A late friend of ours had a very POSITIVE attitude, and when faced with a challenge, would say, “If that’s my ONLY problem, then I don’t have any!!”ReplyCancel

Lately the words that come out of my mouth are, “It’ll allllllll come out in the wash”…I think it came from my NC great Aunt. :)ReplyCancel

My mom always said when God closes a window he opens another. Thanks for the chance to win.ReplyCancel

One of mt favs is “a few bricks shy of a load”.ReplyCancel

My favorite is his (or her) elavator doesn’t go to the top floor.
Hey I’m from NC too!!ReplyCancel

As a young girl I would ask one time too many ask where my parents were going my father would say, “I’m going to see a man about a dog.”ReplyCancel

That’s quite a bounty of blog candy, Becca! My favorite idiom is:

“Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.” Then there’s always “That dog don’t hunt.” Or wait! How about, “Scarcer than hen’s teeth.”

Good stuff!ReplyCancel

My grandmother always said, “Stop burning daylight” which meant ‘Turn off the lights and quit wasting electricity (and money)’.
I use that on my kids now! Thanks for giving us the chance for such wonderful blog candy.ReplyCancel

Great bunch of goodies@ Hope I win.ReplyCancel

My uncle use to say that dog don’t hunt.ReplyCancel

Off the top of my head all I can come up with right now is “He’s a cool cucumber!” I guess meaning that the person was calm and not riled up.

Love the “cool” doubles that you have for blog candy – none of which I have:)ReplyCancel

My daughter is fond of saying, “He/She’s not the brightest crayon in the box”. I used to always tell the kids when they were growing up that, “You get more with honey than you do with vinegar.”ReplyCancel

Becca, You always have such fun ways to participate.

My mother-in-law is fond of saying “Brand Clean” sort of like brand new but I never heard anyone else say it.

Thanks for your enduring creativity.ReplyCancel

This one is so funny. My mom always had weird sayings when I was a kid. I’ve used some of them on my younger employees, who cannot figure out what I am saying.

One of her sayings was… Whenever I asked my mom, “what for?” she would always say, “cat fur to make kitten britches.” It was a play on the words “for” and “fur.”ReplyCancel

Hey Becca,
Being from the South, my favorite saying is “Well kiss my Grits!”.
SusanReplyCancel

Oh, this is a good one! My favourite idiom is one my grandmother and mother used to say to me. It is “You know what thought did, don’t you?”

Whenever I’d say “I thought …”, they’d say this to me. It took me until my 20’s to figure out the question and what it meant. Then I got the answer!

If you read this and want to know what it is, let me know and I’ll send you an email.

Lots of fun, here, always! Thanks from Ontario, Canada.ReplyCancel

My dear late mother-in-law used to say, “Like buying a cat in a sack!” It meant buying or getting something you couldn’t see before you got it.
The unknown factor….ReplyCancel

As a kid my father would refer to a whacky person as “one brick short of a load”, or “not the sharpest knife in the drawer”. I still use those two sayings. Thanks Becca for your generosity. You are definitely a sweetheart and we do appreciate all you do for those of us that are not so gifted in the creative world.
MarcieReplyCancel

Becca,

My mom would say gossip is like,, when you stub your toe, by the time it gets to the third person you broke your foot and your in the hospital. LOL

She was so funny!

Blessings BeccaReplyCancel

“When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Thanks for the chance.ReplyCancel

Oh Becca, these are so much fun!!
I could explain many of them. Like the Carters Little Liver Pills.
They were little bottles of pills sold OTC probably forerunners of today’s vitamin pills & sold by the millions. One of the other saying about them my G/Father used to say was, A Baby in every Bottle. My G/Mother must have taken them, they had ten children. lol & she had many of them over a hundred yrs. ago.

One of my own, when my husband would get up & be out of sorts
I would say he had taken his “Here comes the Grump pills.”

mary l.ReplyCancel

One of my friends mixed his idioms when he said, “I’d like to be a mouse on the wall” when the boss finds that out. Thanks for another great chance to win blog candy.ReplyCancel

“That’s a Corker” for something that is funny or unusual. I never understood how this came into being.ReplyCancel

I recently transplanted to Georgia from Pennsylvania. so not only has it taken me a while to figure out what “ya’all is fixing to do” the locals look at me funny when I “updumped my poke”.ReplyCancel

Becca, I love your creativity! This topic finally got me off the fence. I buy repeats more than my husband knows! I did that just yesterday, and told him how frustrated I felt, and needed it like I needed another hole in my head. One saying I’ve heard, and yes, said once to someone out of TOTAL frustration was, “You’re so full of sh** your eyes are brown.” Hard to keep this one clean.ReplyCancel

What a fun “blog candy ” theme. I hear ” I’m between a rock and a hard place”.ReplyCancel

What a trip down memory lane. A lot of these are familiar. I have heard different variations of some–“bleeding like a stuck pig.” Growing up my dad would always reply to where are you going with ” I’m going to see a man about a horse. I would get all excited as I really wanted to have a horse. I never did get one:(. I have heard ” If wishes were horses, we’d all take a ride.

Then there is “if it was a snake, it would bite you.” meaning it was really close, in front of your face.

I loved reading all the comments. Thanks. I would love to win the blog candy.ReplyCancel

thanks for the chance to win!
I like” if i were a fly on the wall, the stories i could tell!”
heheee..ReplyCancel

WOWOW what a fun candy!
I like the idiom : “As cool , as a cucumber”!
Great way to win the candy. Love the idea.ReplyCancel

I don’t know if this is unique to Scotland but my dad used to describe us kids when we were carrying on as “Daft as a brush and twice as hairy”

Another my gran said was “never cast a cloot ’til May is oot” meaning don’t expect good weather before then (you don’t stop spring cleaning until end of May because the weather usually makes mud up until then, cast = throw out, cloot = cloth, & oot = out).

And another, If you’ve got “a pig in a poke” you’ve got something no use to anyone or broken.

I’d better stop….
but this reminds me of my gran again saying “you’re a blethering skate and the ducks’ll get you” translation =I talk too much lol.

Thanks for the chance of these lovely goodies Becca.ReplyCancel

I’ve always heard “I’m fit as a fiddle”….not sure what that means though. Thanks for the chance to win blog candy!!ReplyCancel

From my grandma if we were taking to long “going around Moser’s slew.” Thanks for a chance to win some cool “stuff”.ReplyCancel

My friend says” We were so poor we didn’t have a pot to pee in!!” You, Becca , are so kind to share all your insights into card creating… THANKS!!!!!!!ReplyCancel

I say this one a lot … “slicker than snot on a doorknob” LOL or “smooth as a baby’s bottom” or “closer than 2 peas in a pod” or “faster than spit in the wind” .. ok I’ll stop for now LOLReplyCancel

When I started working full time, we all went out for lunch and I ordered …wait for this one ” lum-dum-fungaroos” !!!!!!

What is it? It is the only name my mom ever called … French Toast.

Betcha never heard that one before. Thanks so much for the fun, your blog candy looks awesome!ReplyCancel

When I was little and in the car with my dad waiting to turn, if there was a lot of traffic coming, my dad would say “Who opened the gate?” I would always look for a gate, lol. I was probably about 17 or 18 when I finally figured out what he meant. :)ReplyCancel

‘let the cat out of the bag’… so much for the surprize!
thanks for the op to win your excess stash, Becca!ReplyCancel

I’m having fun reading all the idioms! ‘Colder than a tin toilet seat’ comes to mind. And I’d love to take your doubles off of your hands. Waiting to read more tomorrow!ReplyCancel

One of my best friends in high school once said that she had to pee like a race horse. Being an exchange student I’d never heard that saying before and I found it quite funny.. :)ReplyCancel

When I was very young I asked my grandfather why he wore a tie every day. His response, in his lovely Southern accent was:
“If you want to get to heaven when you d-i-e, then you gotta wear a collar and a t-i-e.” The words die and tie you have to spell out loud.ReplyCancel

My mother used to say about someone who was complaining. “She/he would cry with a loaf of bread under each arm. I love reading all of these, what a cute idea. I read them all. Thanks for the chance to win some of your doubles. I’m guilty as well.ReplyCancel

Someone once used this comment, apparently common for them… Believe it or die!
i was taken aback when i heard it, and figured i better believe it!!ReplyCancel

My husband used to comment on some cars he drove as rentals–“It took off like a herd of turtles.”ReplyCancel

Sure has been fun reading all of these–thanks for the opportunity!

Here’s one I seem to use a lot:”She could talk the hind leg off a donkey!”

And my husband’s grandmother had a bunch of funny ones, like “That coffee’s so strong it would make a rabbit sit up and spit in a bulldog’s face!”ReplyCancel

This is blog great reading today! My grandmother taught me this one. Nobody will notice on a galloping horse. I said that idiom to my granddaughter. Now she is a teenager and still asks for those old sayings. Every one who reads these idioms is a winner. But I wouldn’t refuse the blog candy. Thanks, Becca
Sharon LReplyCancel

Oh, yeah! I forgot one…very appropriate for the last two weeks in my region…”It’s hotter than the hinges on the back gates to hell.”ReplyCancel

I love “when pigs fly” – there’s something about that that just makes me smile. You know what it means, and when it’s said, it just hits the spot!ReplyCancel

Becca, you pick such wonderful challenges. I had to read everyone’s remarks and it’s so time-consuming…and this is just day 1. My father-in-law had several Czech expressions that we never really understood: “All things have an end, but a sausage has two.” Hunh.. well, yeah, but so? I no longer remember any context in which it was said.ReplyCancel

A FAVORITE I STILL USE IS ,WERE YOU BORN IN A BARN?ReplyCancel

Hi Becca! I’ve never understood the saying to “hit a lick at a snake”!! I’ve even had people explain it to me, but I’m still confused whenever I hear it, LOL! ~LindaReplyCancel

lately for me: “it is what it is”. I absouletly despise: “whatever”…
(there is a website to explain these strange collections! Quite interesting…) Oh when I’m typing, I like to use “…” (does that count?)ReplyCancel

I’ve always like the one, “He’s a sandwich short of a picnic basket.”

Thank you for a chance to win some beautiful blog candy. I can think of so many ways to use the great items! Your website is so much fun. Thank you for sharing you many talents.ReplyCancel

My husband sometimes says that someone was a useful as a one legged man in an a** kicking contest!

Love the chance to win the candy. Thanks for the memories. I have heard my grandmother and my parents say lots of these.ReplyCancel

My Louisianna grandmother used to say “Well, I Swannie” when she wanted to curse but “was raised better than that”.ReplyCancel

We would always get told when we had to many things going on at one time that we had “to many irons in the fire”. This contest has made some great reading.
Thanks for the chance to win the blog candy.ReplyCancel

“That dog won’t hunt!” Thanks for the chance! Diane H.ReplyCancel

One of my favorites is- She’s a brick shy of a full load, or his elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top! I want to win!ReplyCancel

Oh rats!! I’m so sad. I don’t get to check e-mail in the evenings most nights so I missed the first word of the day since I was also gone all morning… so that blows the whole double play thing for me. Can’t even think of one idiom that I didn’t understand when I heard it, so will never have one a day through Wednesday! LOL!! Oh well… have to sit this contest out, I guess. But, thank you SOOOO much, Becca for your wonderful blog and all the beautiful cards and projects you share. You are so talented… your work is amazing!!!ReplyCancel

My mother in law would say, Make a light,ReplyCancel

When we were kids, we would say “What Fer” and my Mom would answer, “Cat Fur for Kitten Britches”. We got the point we were not to use “fer instead of for” and we have remembered it into our more years…..and have passed it on to our kids.ReplyCancel

‘low hanging fruit’ – I heard this one in the business world and at first thought it was strange and must just be one person’s made up phrase. However, then I heard it in my travels to many different states visiting clients, etc. Basically means tackle the easy task and work your way up. :-)ReplyCancel

Close the door, were you born in a barn?ReplyCancel

MY FAVORITE IS “CAT GO YOUR TONGUE”ReplyCancel

This one is from my sister’s in-laws side of the family & I still don’t get it. ‘She’s crazier than pig sh*t”. They are from a tiny Texas town & they usually use it to describe one of the locals.
And as for those oops dups, I am the queen of that with one punch size only. I have bought & returned the same size one from my LSS so many times that my punch card & store file actually have an alert to make sure I’m not doing it again. LOL
Thank you for the chance to win your oops dups.
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I am terrible at ideoms or sayings. My family teases me all the time because I get mix two together or plain just don’t say them right. In fact I did it tonight on the way home from a wedding when we went the wrong way I told my husband to “whip a louie”. He laughed and said it is “whip a U ie” I was also known to say “it ain’t over until the fat lady swings”. I know, I am really sad but true. I give my family a good laugh though! LOLReplyCancel

It’s raining cats and dogs

yeah?ReplyCancel

“It’s time to hit the hay”. Actually, it will be for me in about an hour. : )ReplyCancel

I live in Nashville, and I heard someone say, “She’s as mad as a hornet in hairspray!”ReplyCancel

The one saying I remember my mom saying is ” You’re the cats pajamas!” I don’t know cats wore pajamas! Thanks for a chance at the candy.
neeseyReplyCancel

A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The BushReplyCancel

hi becca
dont dily dally I love thisReplyCancel

If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything – that was a favorite I always heard and try to remember.ReplyCancel

Flat out, like a lizard drinking. Used went you are really busy.ReplyCancel

Another Huh!! expression that we used a lot in my family was “My Giddy Aunt” which was really an expression of amazement – don’t know the origins at all!ReplyCancel

When something was impossible or just was not going to happen my dad would say, “You are dreaming of fox eggs”. I actually found myself using it with my child and grandkids too.

Just found this blog and wow it is so cool.

CA from CanadaReplyCancel

My Grandma Ruth would say-you can attract more bees with honey than vinegar.ReplyCancel

Money doesn’t grow on trees. My mum often said it to us kids, and gosh it used to brass me off, but I now find myself saying it to my kids!
Thinking about my stamping supplies, perhaps I should be saying it to myself a bit more !! You too??? !!ReplyCancel

If my father in law saw a woman who was a little on the heavy side, he would say “she’s big at the little and bottom at the top.”ReplyCancel

How about “A dime a dozen”…

This is so much fun. It’s amazing all the different ones!

Thanks again Becca.ReplyCancel

I have heard people say, “Birds of a feather flock together” sometimes.ReplyCancel

Water seeks it’s own level.
Similar people hang together.ReplyCancel

I move to Florida from Utah, there are many idioms that make me go huh. One of the first ones I heard was “he/she’s a mess.” Where I come from a mess is something you clean up, in the south it has nothing to do with cleaning up a mess. I still haven’t figured out exactly what it means.ReplyCancel

Wow, it’s been interesting to read some these. Many of them bring back memories.

One of my favorites comes from a coworker – a very funny lady. When you struggle to get something to work and you finally figure out how to do it, she’ll say “well, that worked slicker than snot on a doorknob” I had never heard that one before I met her, but it always makes me laugh.ReplyCancel

Ooh Becca! Thanks so much for your generosity!

Until we had dogs, these idioms sometimes puzzled! Both my grandmothers used these a lot!

‘Like a dog in the manger’

‘It’s a dog’s life’

‘Let sleeping dogs lie’

‘It’s raining cats and dogs’

‘Done up like a dog’s dinner’

‘Looks like a dog’s breakfast’

‘Gone to the dogs’

‘As fit as a butcher’s dog’

Hugs
Anne (UK)ReplyCancel

The cats pj’sReplyCancel

One of the things I heard growing up was that face would stop a clock.

Thanks

Your Friend in Christ

Hugs

ChristineReplyCancel

When I went for my walk last night I was trying to think of a whole bunch of them and of course couldn’t … then I ended up using one at the end of the night…lol. When something costs “an arm and a leg”.ReplyCancel

My mother always used to say,”Don’t cut the tip of your nose off to spite your face.” & now of course I pass those wise words onto my kids.
Marianne/NYReplyCancel

My E Tn ex also used to describe someone who had too much to drink as “Drunker than Cooter Brown” – and of course I asked who Cooter Brown was (I let go of the fact that drunker is not a word). The same confused look is what I got for an answer.ReplyCancel

Blessed Sunday, Becca. One idiom my mother used was “Wait until your father gets home!” Really dreaded that one.ReplyCancel

Here’s another one,, “You think you’re the cat’s whiskers”ReplyCancel

“Whatever”!ReplyCancel

When someone is being dense-All the lights are out,no body is home.
ThanksReplyCancel

When things are just not going your way the saying “up a creek without a paddle” comes to mind.ReplyCancel

My sophmore English teacher/speech & debate coach, Miss Jasper Schlinker (yes, a female named Jasper!) would tell us, “That’s your little red wagon!” Whenever we’d forget an assignment, line or paper. She was in her 60’s in 1972 and drank a 16 oz bottle of Pepsi every morning! Keep the blog candy coming! But even more, keep the great ideas coming!ReplyCancel

Kiss my grits!!! lol, not literaly of courseReplyCancel

If anything was impossible to do my brother would always say “you as much chance as plating fog”

thanks for the inspiration and blog candy BeccaReplyCancel

the one that always gets me is you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
thanks for the fun!
SandraReplyCancel

When my son wouldn’t follow through with something, I’d say ” you didn’t go from A to B. Some of the sayings are so funny.ReplyCancel

Well, I’m just checking email after an absence of two days – annual family reunion – this year in Ohio….so I missed several words. No, problem, I can still enjoy the fun.

My father would say ” Lights are on but nobody’s home” if one of us (3 girls) would say or do something without thinking.

Now, with a 14 year old DGD, the message from her father is “the wattage must be a little low today”ReplyCancel

How about, “He has a chip on his shoulder.”? I was always looking for the chip.
My grandmother used to say, “if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.” Took me many years to figure that one out.ReplyCancel

What ever trips your trigger.ReplyCancel

my husband says from time to time that it is “colder than a wells diggers butt” not sure where that originated….ReplyCancel

My mother’s favourite when anyone procrastinated, was, “This won’t buy the baby a new bonnet.”ReplyCancel

This is a wonderful idea for participation in a blog candy give-away. The comments make entertaining reading. Here’s an oldie for today: scootie-booger (it meansto go downstairs on your bottom as fast as you can).

Thanks again, Becca, for sharing your talent with us.ReplyCancel

My mom (who is now in heaven) always use to tell me when life was hard, This too shall pass! Man, I miss hearing HER say it to me!!ReplyCancel

That and 50 cents will get you a cup of coffee.
Guess this Idiom needs a bit of updating changing the 50 cents to 5 dollars!!ReplyCancel

a day late and a penny shortReplyCancel

Hello Becca thanks for makeing me laugh and the memory that has come back to me another of the saying don’t let the green grass fool you I tell you they know how to hit the hammer on the head.ReplyCancel

Hope you’re having a great day! A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush????? What the heck does that mean? :)ReplyCancel

When our much loved and taught children do something that you never thought they would do my husband says, “I know your mine but I’m not sure you belong to your mother.” I don’t have the heart to tell him it makes it sound like all the crazy things they do are inherited from him. So now I know they don’t get it from me.ReplyCancel

Fit’s someone to a “T”.

I look like the wreck of the Hesperus.ReplyCancel

your sweating like a pigReplyCancel

How about “Don’t get too big for your britches”. This is soooo fun!
Thanks for the blog candy!ReplyCancel

When things would not go the way I planned, my Dad would always say “That’s the way the cookie crumbles!” I always wondered what that meant . . . Have a great day everyone! Hugs, MagiReplyCancel

What fun reading! My friend always says she’s “working on her last nerve” when she’s frustrated. Hadn’t heard that one before.ReplyCancel

My mother used to always say, “You made your bed, now you have to lie in it.” It meant that if I did a good job with anything, it would feel good, like a well-made bed. If I messed up in life or whatever, I’d have to pay the consequences.ReplyCancel

Whatever floats your boat!

Thanks for the chance to win blog candy.ReplyCancel

My favorite on is “That’s as useful as a screen door on a submarine”. Love your site……..ReplyCancel

I’d still like to win your blog candy.
SarahReplyCancel

Looking at the world through Rose Colored Glasses.
It is prettier that way.

mary l.ReplyCancel

Thanks for the chance on candy , wonderful candy ..” I used to be young and foolish but now I’m just foolish”ReplyCancel

“Don’t let the cat out of the bag”. Thanks again, Becca!ReplyCancel

“It’s a Horse apiece” I actually still use that one. There are several others I use and I am not sure if people know what I am talking about when I say these things. I just have to laught about it when they look all dumbfouned. Especially young people. ha ha ha

Thanks for the opportunity to win some more blog candy!ReplyCancel

I have been “getting a kick” out of reading these little snipets. I especially like the personal stories explaining who used to say these things and what they meanReplyCancel

Here’s one: The road to heaven is built with good intentions.ReplyCancel

When growing up mom used to say, “I’m from Missouri… show me.” Never understood it as she was not from Missouri!!!
Glad to see that others make “double” purchases… ;-)ReplyCancel

Blood is thicker than water. I get that family ties are closer than other relationships, but who decided to compare blood to water?
Thank you, Becca, for a chance at the blog candy.ReplyCancel

I heard this one in a George Clooney (sigh) movie, O’ Brother, Where Art Thou – “He’s as dumb as a bag of hammers.”ReplyCancel

A stitch in time saves nine. my G/ma said.

mary l.ReplyCancel

wow there is sure a lot of saying around. Here in aussie land there is one …..As low as a snakes belly…. Boy you cant get any lower.ReplyCancel

Whenever we’d leave the door open: “Were you raised in a barn?!”ReplyCancel

Becca I have another 2 this morning,,,”He swears like a sailor”,,,, and “Don’t let the door hit you on your way out” This is such a fantastic blog candy “game” i’m enjoying it very much, very interesting sayings.ReplyCancel

That would choke a horse used to be a favorite of mine.ReplyCancel

One I always liked was “get your head out of the clouds”.ReplyCancel

One I always heard was ” If you play the game you have to pay the piper”

Thanks

Your Friend in Christ

ChristineReplyCancel

Hi Becca,

Thanks for the chance to win the wonderful candy! These were really fun to read! I use “busier than a one armed paper hanger” and people say HUH! How about the one that came out a few years ago ” She thinks she is all that and a bag of chips too!ReplyCancel

My Mother In Law used to say about a fiesty person: “She is all spit and vinegar” Thanks so much !ReplyCancel

Another saying Becca is “keep laughing and you’ll laugh on the other side of the face” some really weird phrases,

Have a nice day Becca and hope hubby is fine now after all his probsReplyCancel

Still having fun reading. Y’all keep ’em coming.ReplyCancel

fooled once, shame on you
fooled twice, shame on me!
Love your work, Becca!
Thanks for sharingReplyCancel

Another thing my mother would always tell me was, Do unto others as you would have them do to you.ReplyCancel

How about “rule of thumb”…that doesn’t seem like a very big rule considering the size of someone’s thumb..ReplyCancel

Not very nice but an old saying is “a face only a mother could love.”ReplyCancel

Becca, you are “one smart cookie” for thinking this one up. When I moved to Indiana over thirty years ago, a saying I heard often was “What goes around, comes around.”ReplyCancel

Becca,
One saying I have heard since childhood is, “Now your goose is cooked” meaning you really messed up.
MaryReplyCancel

How about “fine as frog hair” which has to be pretty darn fine.ReplyCancel

I’m still laughing at some of the comments. What fun. Thanks for the chance to win – can’t think of anything that hasn’t already been said.ReplyCancel

My parents used to always say, whenever there were two choices that were equally bad or equally good:

Well, that’s a horse apiece!ReplyCancel

Thanks so much for the fantastic blog candy, I only wish I’d been here over the weekend to collect all the words! I still can’t figure out what “raining cats & dogs” is all about!ReplyCancel

Been there, done that with the double purchaes!!!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca,One that we use often if a thing is very rare… “It’s as scarce as hen’s teeth!”
Hugs,
TrishReplyCancel

Can’t wait to see who the winner is.ReplyCancel

Becca – this is so much fun! Just have to read them all and have a laugh! Thanks for the opportunity!

My grandmothers were full of quaint sayings which included names and which puzzled us as children:

‘As happy as Larry’ – had no idea who Larry was!

‘Gone for a Burton’ – was Burton a person?

‘Like Darby and Joan’ – who was this strange-named couple?

‘Heavens to Betsy’ – and who was she?

Hugs
Anne (UK)ReplyCancel

We had moved to a new town and had joined a church there. I was working in the library and I asked one of the ladies if she would show me how to do something. She replied “I don’t care to”. I was quite taken aback but then she began to show me. I finally realized that she meant she didn’t mind doing it! It took me quite a while to get used to that statement.ReplyCancel

When I first moved to TX, I wondered what people meant when they said someone was “out of pocket.”ReplyCancel

One I heard my Grandmother say many times, “You need to lick your calf over” meaning you did not do something well enough such as cleaning your room. That would really confuse the kids nowdays!ReplyCancel

How are you feeling?

“Fine as frogs hair”ReplyCancel

When my kids were little my in-laws would take them for a few days one at a time. My middle son was staying on time and it was bedtime and my father-in-law told him to “hit the road, Jack.” And he started crying and walked toward the door. he thought he was throwing him out of the house. Poor little guy. LOL!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca,
Hope you are having a good day.
Another of my dad’s was – don’t take any wooden nickels.
How about- don’t cry over spilled milk.
Hugs, CandyReplyCancel

“dropped the ball”
Thanks for the chance.ReplyCancel

That joke, trick, dress, etc. is…

…as old as the hills.

…older than dirt.ReplyCancel

“Fine as fiddle dust”.

Thanks for the chance to win blog candy!ReplyCancel

Hi Becca

This is great. Some I know, some I don’t. Here are two (courtesy of my dad) which he found very useful when answering little peoples questions.

1 How old are you? As old as my little finger and a little older than my teeth!!!

2. Dad were are we going? There and back to see how far it is!

Thank you for a chuckle and for the opportunity to win some blog candy

Brenda P (Wales)ReplyCancel

This blog is certainly providing a lot of fun for your fans, Becca….”Thanks a bunch”!

My mother would say one must “take the good along with the bad” but my mohter-in-law’s version was “take the bitter with the better” .ReplyCancel

If someone’s got themselves in a scrape, I always say “they can pull their own chestnuts out the fire”. It comes from mediaeval times when they roasted chestnuts on the open fire.

What a lot of stuff you have doubles of and what rude shops not to swop for you but thanks for the chance to win. Lynne.xReplyCancel

“Don’t get your panties in a wad.”ReplyCancel

Here’s one I haven’t heard in a loooooong time—-maybe there’s a good reason. LOL “It’s as cold as a witches’ t*t in a brass brassiere. “ReplyCancel

Thanks for all your inspiration and generosity. Can’t think of any more idioms.ReplyCancel

Ok we all know the saying “get your ducks in a row”.

Well I have a spanish friend that mixes words, saying etc.
She will say “make sure you have your feathers in a row”

So cuteReplyCancel

Wow this is so much fun! So many originals! Here’s a few more:
When someone did something despicable my MIL would was say “He’s lower then whale poop.” Now that’s low!
“Can’t tell his butt for a hole in the ground.”
“Does a bear do it in the woods?”
I cleaned up all three of those.
“Is the Pope Catholic ?”
“I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck.”
Thanks again for the chance to win this awesome candy. And thanks for sharing your talent with us.
Hugs & Blessings
BernieReplyCancel

for me it’s 6 of one and half dozen of the other.ReplyCancel

Here’s a saying on a poster from long ago. I’ve often pondered the words: “Bridges built to the sun, they burn don’t they?”ReplyCancel

Favorite idiom..killing two birds with one stone. I accidentally said “it’s like killing many birds” and my husband won’t let me live it down to this day.ReplyCancel

Thanks for the chance to win. Here’s one, you’re up the creek without a paddle.ReplyCancel

one of my faves—when the moon turns blueReplyCancel

Becca,
“They are like two peas in a pod”. Thanks for sharing all your talents and for offering blog candy.
I do have a suggestion for your double duty buying. I too did that way too often so I decided I was going to do something about it. If you have a cell phone or iPod, you can do the following: I got on my computer using the program Microsoft Word and I started listing items such as you have as blog candy under Company names, then listing them by number. It is very simple to do. It only takes time. Perhaps a friend would be willing to sit at a computer and get them all listed for you. Then I had to contact a person that was familiar with computers and programs and the phone/iPod and they showed me how to download all my listed items on my iPod. I just take my iPod with me to stores and Stamp Conventions and when I am looking at items I think I might buy, I simply get out my list and look up the company , in alphabetical order, then look for the number. It is quick and easy and it saves hassles at the stores. Of course you will have to come up with another reason for going back to the store. This list can be updated each time you make a purchase. Linda C.
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My dad would use the phrase “as a crow flies” when giving an estimate on how far it was somewhere. Like it’s 5 miles as a crow flies to such and such place.ReplyCancel

My G/ma (the same one who took the Carters Little liver Pills) used to say
“Gappin’s catchin’. Meaning if you see someone yawn you will too.
mary l.ReplyCancel

One which I hear a fair bit is “for goodness sake”. For example, if something goes wrong or falls out of a cupboard and creates a huge mess you might say “Oh, for goodness sake!”.
Thanks for the chance to win. Haven’t ever been successful yet but …. you’ve got to be in it, to win it!ReplyCancel

Pouring the rain… What does that mean? A roommate in college used this expression anytime it rained….ReplyCancel

A whistling woman and a cackling hen always come to a no good end is one that I always heard from my Grandmother. My sister could whistle but I cannot.
I’d love to win that great blog candy!ReplyCancel

Hello Becca,
“all dressed up like a dogs dinner” is another saying my Mother use to come out with…somebody certainly has a sense of humour when they came up with these sayings

have a lovely day or if your Irish in any way then the top o’ the morning to youReplyCancel

Hi Becca! My idiom is totally personal, or most it (I think) —- at least I have never heard it anywhere but from my father when I was growing up. Every fall/winter/early spring morning that was at least a bit on the cool side my father would wake me up for school on weekdays and chores on weekends, by whispering in my ear “Wake up Shawnie, the frost is on the pumpkin”. I wish, before he passed away, that I had asked him what that meant.ReplyCancel

My dad use to say “even a wild boar gets an acorn once in a while”. He would always say this when something really good would happen to us after a lot of bad things. My son now tells me my daughter gives me lemons, and he’s turning it into cherry lemonade. I can’t help but laugh each and every time. It helps with the stress.

Carole MillerReplyCancel

If a girls’ hips moved a lot when she walked my mom would say, “she needs a porch for that swing.”ReplyCancel

It took awhile before I understood the need to ‘red up.’ How cleaning up became redding up, I don’t know.
You are very generous with your blog candy. Just wish I had been able to get all the words.ReplyCancel

Another good one is now ain’t that the pot calling the kettle black thanks for the chance to win a prize hope I doReplyCancel

I always thought “raining cats and dogs” was a very strange idiom… ? Seriously, You gotta wonder who comes up with these things. LOLReplyCancel

BECCA BECCA I SAT HER THIS EVENING AND HAD A GOOD LAUGH
READING ALL THE FUNNY SAYINGS. MY IS, HE’S NOT PLAYING WITH
A FULL DECK. MEANING THE PERSON WASN’T DOING THE JOB RIGHT.

HOPE YOUR FEELING BETTER A BOUT YOUR FRIEND.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR GIVING US A CHANCE TO WIN AND IF WE DON’T
WIN, AT LEASE A GOOD LAUGH.

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I like you can’t have your cake and eat it too (doesn’t hurt to try…) :-)ReplyCancel

I work in a family friendly enviroment & my co-workers sometimes let slip a not friendly word. I created ‘fudgebunnies’ instead of the ‘other F word’. If nothing else it just makes you hungry for fudge. LOL

I can answer one of the idioms, the term ‘once in a blue moon’ refers to having two full moons in the same month. The 2ed moon is the blue moon. As for our next bluemoon in the northern hemisphere, it will be on August 2nd, 2012. Don’t forget to set your calendars. HTH

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“thats the straw that broke the camels back”.

Thank you Becca for a chance to win the great blog candy and shaing your talents with us!

PamReplyCancel

When something was really nasty we used to say “it would gag a maggot”!ReplyCancel

“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence” is one I heard. Thank you for a chance to win.ReplyCancel

A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand.ReplyCancel

I found myself just today saying to my nearly 2yr nephew ‘it’s got bones in it has it’ when he coughed while having a drink of water. It is something my nana used to say, it’s funny how the sayings we hear as children come back to us!ReplyCancel

I live by the K.I.S.S. priciple: Keep It Simple, SWEETIE!ReplyCancel

How about “rise & shine”?? Thought that might be good for 630 in the morning….lol.ReplyCancel

How about “Like a duck on a June bug”?ReplyCancel

I’ve been running late for work the last two days trying to read all of these. I’ve enjoyed it so much.
“No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap”.ReplyCancel

“Your barn door is open”….meaning your zipper is open…..ReplyCancel

This one is something my husband has said. She is so ugly she had to sneat up on a glass to get a drink of water.

Thanks

Your Friend in Christ

ChristineReplyCancel

My daughter had this to say one day and it totally cracked me up. “He’s not the sharpest pencil in the box.”ReplyCancel

I guess I’d have to say it was when I first celebrated Christmas with my now-husband / then-boyfriend and his family. Someone gave my boyfriend a CD, and another person said, “Oh, it’s a fishbowl!” What they meant is, it’s plain to see, easy to see through. I had never heard that before!ReplyCancel

This isn’t exactly an idiom, but my DH and I say this all the time when he’s looking for something and can’t find it……”he has male-pattern blindness”. Isn’t it true though! Women can always find things, while men can be looking right at something and not see it. We think it’s funny anyway. Thanks for offering the blog candy.ReplyCancel

The early bird gets the worm!ReplyCancel

It takes two to tango.ReplyCancel