Posted on 09/21/2012 1:58:04 PM PDT by Pharmboy
I have always enjoyed hearing those funny and clever expressions handed down from grandmas and grandpas in the heartland. I grew up in the east, but went to school in the mid-west, and some of the guys I went to school with had some great ones.
I would love to hear some of yours.
I will start with a few that I heard years ago, and ask you folks to add your own favorites that you heard from friends and family.
My dad (NYC):
"Busier than a one-armed paper hanger."
From a buddy from Indiana:
"Well, he stands out like two turds in a pan of milk."
"She's crazier than a half-f***ed fox during the heat season."
From a guy from Georgia who lived down the hall [said about a woman who was not particularly attractive]:
She sure ain't nobody's pretty chile."
A woman from Maryland as she goes to answer the telelphone:
"What kind of fresh hell is this?"
Now you go...
And a couple more ...
Grandma sped through cleaning house: “I gave it a lick and a promise.”
Hired hands didn’t accomplish much on a project according to one of my dad’s friends. “They didn’t hit a lick.”
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while.
:)
Seeing Alan Colmes, I thought he epitomized the saying, "He's got a face for radio."
Grandpa, Meriden CT: “Better than a sharp stick in the eye” (not very good).
Grandma (NYC Public school teacher x 50 years, re: education reform): “Well, that’s fine, but somebody’s gotta clean the subways”.
“Thank God and Greyhound, you’re gone!”
“Next Greyhound outta here, be under it!”
“It ain’t easy bein’ easy.”
“I’ve been educated beyond my intelligence.”
“I don’t understand everything I know about that.”
LOL, without a shadow of a doubt.
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