Double Play Blog Candy – New

Slow as molasses in January
Hugs
Becky

My favorite was what my dad says if I’m not moving fast enough… Grandma’s old, what’s your excuse?

Thanks for the opportunity for blog candy

How about “That Was the Last Straw”. Thanks for the chance to win.

The one I always heard growing up and have found myself using on my own children: “If you have time to do it over, you have time to do it right the first time”

An idiom that my husband use often is, “it’s raining cats and dogs”; here in Florida, we have many thunderstorms and rain, and I get scared easily with all the noise. He uses that phrase to make me laugh and forget my worries. Frances.

Wow! You give so much stuff away it’s unbelieveable. I still come here everyday whether you do or not. I love looking at your projects. As a nurse, when I used to work on the unit, one of our male nurses told me at the end of the day, “my dogs are barking”. He had to explain to me that he meant his feet were hurting.

I say to the kids ” You drive me up the wall” lol… Thanks for the chance to win the Blog candy!!

When asking about something that I knew I wouldn’t get or wouldn’t happen… “When pigs fly”….

This is going to get some good responses I am sure, one of my favorites is “its like trying to nail jello to a wall” (meaning its just about impossible).

My Dad used to say “Father works from sun to sun, but Mother’s work is never done”. Of course, I have always understood that one, but it is definitely one of my favorites! Thanks for your wonderful blog Becca, and another great blog candy chance.

My family used to say “Oh, go jump in a lake!” (I’m from Minnesota, the Land of 10,000 Lakes – State motto) I thought it was funny until I heard it the Millionth time, then it was time to find a new one – LOL :)

Thank you for ALL of your AMAZING creations and Hard work, you really inspire me!! I wish I could take a card class with you/from you!!!

Thank you for the opportunity for Blog Candy! :) ~ Amanda H

I remember my Grandmother would always say this…”I’m older than those hills and twice as dusty”, this was her line for everything…

Karen

My mother used to tell me that I was “slower than molasses in January”. She also used to say “Graceful as a hog on ice” (I was a little clumsy). We certainly laughed a lot when I was young.
Thanks for the chance to win.

My dad used to say, “She/he could eat corn through a Venitian blind” , meaning someone has large prominent teeth. Not very kind, is it? Thanks for chance to win Blog candy.

Great blog candy and so generous of you. I have had double purchases before also. I love visiting your blog and seeing all your gorgeous creations. One that I have heard a lot and even used is “You are slower than Christmas”.

My mother (and many generations before her) was raised on a farm,
and from the time I was little, if anyone asked if she were ready to go, she would ALWAYS say, “I’m Ready’s calf”. I may have been slow, but it took me years before I “got” it. I say it for my family now. Some day they will post about this same quirky quote!

Being my hubby is in the Army, we’ve heard him say that he’s told some to “go pound sand”. Thanks for the opportunity to win some of your “doubles” :)

Becca your blog candy is outstanding. Thank you for sharing. I can remember when I was little and we always had to dry the dishes (no dishwashers back then!!) If I dropped a knife my parents would say “oh, we will be visited by a man”. A fork was a visit from a women and a spoon was a young child. Can’t say if I remember someone coming to the house after this happened!!

Seems like my Granny always talked in idioms, one of them was you’re “Beating a dead horse” Being an animal lover, this was so confusing to me. Thanks for the opportunity to get some candy ;) You just happen to have the one pendant I don’t have yet, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed lol. Thanks Becca!

Between me and the fence post…. this is what my husband’s grandmother use to say all the time…. the kids now days – what is a fence post?

I love these kinds of phrases – one of the funniest one’s I ever heard was “I’m busier than a f*rt in a windstorm” (sorry I couldn’t think of a substitute word but it made the entire group at the dinner table snort their soda!)

LOVE your blog Becca. Thanks for a chance to win. :-)

How about “you’re firing on all cylinders” !

When I first went to work in the engineering department of the telephone company, I was partnered with an older employee and his favorite saying was “Ain’t no hill for a stepper!” This had a definite double meaning for him. He walked faster than anyone I’d ever met, and now I walk just as fast, but it also could mean that whatever we were needing to design wasn’t that difficult. I have a ton of sayings that I use all the time.

My favorite one was told to husband the day after we got engaged. “You boil the hog when the water’s hot.” It took some asking around before we were able to figure out what that meant.

When the 4 of us grandchildren would all get together at my grandma’s house during the summer you were bound to hear her say “I’m gonna box your ears!”. It was always a toss up as to who she was saying it to. Thanks for the chance to win.

I had a biology teacher in high school who used to say, “Is a frog water proof?” That’s what he said when his answer to your question was yes.
Thanks for a chance to win some great blog candy.

At the end of a busy work day I often comment that I’ve been attacked by the brain sucker or that I’m working on my last brain cell.

I agree with your generosity. It’s unmatchable

When we wanted to talk about something there was a lot of we’d say
“Well there’s more whatever out there than Carter has liverpills.”
I have no idea who Carter is or what a livepill is either but we always knew it meant there were a bunch. Thanks for the treats.

Wow! Another wonderful blog candy!

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater threw me for a loop when i first heard it. I think I was a teen.

My husband cut himself and said “I was bleeding like a stuffed pig” I had never heard that before

Thanks Becca for the interesting question. And of course, all the great goodies! One saying I’ve heard all my life and now pass on to my children and grandchildren is ” It’s not what you want that makes you fat. It’s what you get.”
You are so talented and creative. It is a joy each day, just to see what you have to show us. And thank you for all your Becca bits and tutorials. Wish I had just an inkling of your talent. Thanks!

Sometimes when we ask one of our parents where he or she was going they might respond with “going to see a man about a dog” and the reason we didn’t understand what it meant is because he nor she would ever come back with a dog.

When we moved to OHIO many years ago, I had never heard the expression “the whole nine yards”. I had to have some one explain it to me!

One of my favs is someone TRYING to sing… “They couldn’t carry a tune on a platter.” Thanks for the chance to win!! Love your work!

The idiom that, always and still does, makes me go HUH??? is:-

“the bees knees”. I think it means something like:- “you’re the best” but…… I didn’t know bees had knees and have no idea what one thing has to do w/ another. Can someone enlighten me??? :-)

Thanks, Becca, for the chance to win your awesome blog candy!! :-)

One I remember is Mum or Dad saying ‘stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about’ surely we were already crying about something???
Thanks for the chance to win.
Rene from OZ xo

What about, their elevator don”t go all the way up, they are a few bricks short of a load or few fries short of a happy meal! or they are not the brightest bulb on the tree.

Thanks for the opportunity to win blog candy. How sweet it is!

Ages ago I worked in a care home for elderly people. The one that got me was “keep your pecker up!”
Which meant to the very dear and very proper englishwoman; “keep your spirits(nose) up!
That one made me do a double take the first time I heard it! Ha!

Great blog candy, Becca. Here’s mine. Someone put a bug in his ear.

I get tickled every time I hear this one:

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometime.

my favorite is…you don’t pay for your raisin’ til you raise one of your own.

thanks for a chance Becca!!!

It took me a minute to understand what a former co-worker was saying when he said (about someone) – “She looks like the south end of a horse going north”! He REALLY didn’t like that woman!

Thanks for a yet another chance to win some goodies. Love the saying “dip stick doesn’t quite hit the oil” or “lights are one but no one’s home”.

My husband always drives me nuts when he says, “It is what it is!” I’m like…. what the heck does that mean?!!
Another fav of his is, “Six of one, half dozen of the other!” Whaaaaaat?? lol
This is great fun!

My dad used to say, “I’m busier than a one arm paper hanger with the hives.” That always conjured up a funny picture in my mind.

“A watched pot won’t boil.” I sat this a lot.

Working with international students, idioms are always fun to deal with. Years ago one of my students said “you’re in the pink today”, and then proceeded to tell me that it was an idom he had just learned – you’re looking nice/good/etc AND, he went on to say, it was also a true statement that day (because I was wearing a pink searsucker summer dress. I’ve remembered that all these years later (20+) Great blog candy, Becca, and fun as well! Thanks!

The South has a bunch of wonderful idioms. My dad use to pull this one out when we complained about some little thing…”some people would complain if they were being hung with a new rope”. I love it and use it with my kids now, made them pause to think about what it really meant.

My favorite is “I’m your mother and I said so”. Remember hearing that a lot. Would love to win all the goodies. Loved your heart box you made.

Thanks for a chance to win your blog candy, Becca.
I have read all the replies and have heard them all before. I was certain I wouldn’t be able to think of anything else, but I have come up with a few more.
My daddy used to say when he picked up the phone ” Your dime, my time “. You can guess that was 50 years ago LOL
He also used to say ” I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken”.
My grandmother used to say of someone who never stayed still ” she is like a fart in a mitt looking for a thumb hole”. Another one from Granny was if you had an itchy palm – that meant money was coming your way.
How about “it’s like water off a duck’s back”
Oh my so many funny things !!!
Hugs, Candy

Oh Becca this is so up my alley!!! I love quotes, sayings etc,,and your prizes are wonderful, i just started to buy copics so this will be adding to the 12 random colours that i bought when i saw them, and non of them are complimenting each other, hehhee, found that out afterwards,, my b/day saying today,,, that made me laugh and say huh is,,, Hope you laugh until cake and ice cream come out of your nose! can you just imagine that , but i bet it can happen to some kids. chat again tomorrow.

my dearest mom had many idioms,one of which was-when you announced that you were hungry, she would say”go upstairs and eat the monkey!! or as a child, i would often say “its not fair” and she would say “well it must be dark then”
another was “my nose keeps running” and she would say “well tell it to walk”
my mum passed away 21 years ago and i miss her every day!!
but a huge thankyou becca for reminding me of these funny little things she used to say,and a chance to win some blog candy
xx

One of my Mom’s sayings that I always liked is “If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.” Sounds much nicer than “fat chance”, doesn’t it? Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Thank you for great blog candy and your incredible talent. One of the saying I remember as a child when things went wrong was “Up a creek without a paddle.”

Hi there Becca
My Gran was famous for her funny sayings, one of them was.
Get down those stairs and listen to the noise your making up there,
Well as Children I Thought this was hilarious as how could you here the noise upstairs when you came down to listen to it.
Loved reading the different idioms,, they bring back great memories.
Have a lovely weekend
Yvonne
Ireland

Hello Bacca, love your double purchases, I have a few things I got double as well, but always just assumed I am a numpty *lol*
Hmm, not being a native english speaker I am not sure I get many of thse idioms, but this one is used by my hubby sometimes (hope I don’t offend anyone) “he is pissed like a rat’s a**e”
Love, Alex

When a job is hard, i usually say – ” its like pushing mud up a hill” or “swimming though jelly”
When buying something you don’t need- ” you need that like a fish needs a bike !”
“thats as useful as a chocolate teapot!”

Brill Candy! Thanks

Once again Becca, Thank U. What Wonderful blog candy.
Guess what I was told alot growing up was;
‘ button your lip’. Needless to say, I could never keep my mouth shut.
Also heard alot was ‘A day late, and a dollar short’.
Oh, I remember my grandmother saying;
‘A hitch in your giddy-up’(If you have a hitch in your giddy-up, you’re not feeling well.)
Sorry that I gave more then one, but once I get on a roll, I keep going. :}

Thanks again Becca
ColleenB.

This is sooo fun reading through all of these. I worked in construction and heard many–some not able to print for all eyes to see, however. Two of them I heard often: tighter than a crab’s butt and that’s water tight and he still has his Communion money. Both of these referring to somebody cheap and stingy. WOW on the blog candy. You always have the best bowed projects and goodies to give away. Thanks bunches.
Stay well,
AnnMarie

One of my favorite sayings in regards to someone that has no common sense is: if he/she had gunpowder for brains they wouldn’t have enough to blow their nose!

One I have heard all my life is “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch!”

Thanks for another chance Becca-you’re too kind!! I think most of the things kids these days say make me go hunh! Like the other day I heard skittling….had no clue what that meant. That’s probably not what you were looking for, but it made me go hunh

‘Wind your neck in’ used to be a favorite of my Mom’s when we used to start getting a bit ‘mouthy’ or annoyed about something.

My Gma used to say”Well isn’t that the Cats Meow” Whenever she liked something a lot….

My favorites are “she’s not playing with a full deck” and “finer than a frog hair split 4 ways”
This is fun. Thanks for the smile and a change for free stuff.

It’s funny that as I was getting to the bottom of the comments and thinking about sayings that have stuck in my head, that the “finer than a frog hair split 4 ways” was just above the spot I was to write.

We must be from the same part of the country.

Thanks for the blog candy opportunity.

I have so enjoyed reading all of the sayings. The one my Mom used to say when we were children was “Don’t cut your nose off to spite your face” Thanks for the opportunity of Blog candy Your blog is my favorite and I always get inspired with your works of art!

money only spends once. is a favorite that my kids always hated to hear when they made a poor choice and wanted to be bailed out. thanks for the opportunity to win.

Good morning, Becca! Thanks again for the opportunity to win great “candy”! My Dad always told us, “You’re not thinking with a full deck!” when we were about to make a foolish decision. Have many more, but will save them for the rest of the play time . . . Thanks to all of the other players – I loved reading all of yours! Hugs, Magi

“What are you smoking?” confuses the kids today. Thanks for the chance of winning some wonderful blog candy and thanks too for sharing your talent with all of us.

One I’ve used through the years when talking about following through with something is “You got to dance with the one what brung you.” It always puts a smile on a face.

From my Irish grandmother: “…going to hell in a handbasket.”

Mary

My Mother use to say to us…Don’t end up the creek without a paddle!

A dear friend of mine likes to use the phrase, “Oh my stars!” I enjoy hearing it! Thanks for the opportunity to win some yummy blog candy.

You are an inspiration!

I love these old sayings and have used quite a few of those mentioned already. Almost 20 years ago, I moved to rural Missouri and was talking with a co-worker when a rather unsightly young lady passed by. My co-worker popped out with “She looks rode hard and put up wet”. Those who know horses would understand. At the time I didn’t.
Becca, thanks for the opportunity to win your great goodies. Love your talent!

I had a coworker who always used the comment “is what it is”….I never did understand what she meant by that..

As a kid my mother would ask me where something was and of course I would say I did not know. My mother then would say if it was up your (butt) you would know.

Your Friend in Christ

Christine

A fox smells his own hole first…my Grandma used to say this and I’ve said it to my son when he was younger.

Thanks for sharing your amazing talent with us (and for sharing blog goodies)

My kids are always saying that someone is “a couple french fries short of a happy meal”.

My ex, from E. Tennessee, had some interesting expressions. When something didn’t last long he would say “That lasted about as long as Pat stayed in the Army”. I asked him who Pat was, thinking it was a friend of his who got booted out of the Army for some reason, and all I got was a confused look from him. I didn’t ask again.

I’ve heard “Out of the frying pan, and into the fire”. Meaning from one disaster or problem, right into the next! And boy, has that happened before! :)

My Hubby always says…” Quit being a back seat driver”….lol

“Poetic Justice”… it was quite the court room I used to imagine. Now I’m “guilty” of using this idiom all the time…lol.

One that I like a lot is “You snooz you loose”. Which is like He who hesitates is lost.

Love ya
Arlene

One that my mom and dad would say when teaching me how to drive was “hit the foot-feed”…for the accelerator. Love your blog … you always come up w/the best giveaways! Thanks!

Another well used, and still used, one is “well isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black”. My kids look at me like I’m a crazy person every time I say it – “what the heck does that mean?!” is usually the response!

Wow! I had so much fun reading your comments & have heard most of the them in my childhood. I often heard “hold your horses” when I was growing up. :) Thanks for the opportunity to win such great blog candy!

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

Would you like a little cheese with that whine? (When someone is whining, of course.)

I forgot the sayings – I live in North Carolina, so they would probably be some you already know. Cooking on the front burner. (The front burner always gets hotter than the ones on the back)

My father’s favorite idiom was “just put your ‘John Henry’ right here”, as the person pointed to where he should sign his name to a document. He loved it because he always signed “John Henry ____” and as he did so people who didn’t know him would look at him with their mouths open. He loved making them think he was not very bright. Then they’d all have a good laugh when he told them that his first and middle names were truly John Henry!
Enjoyed reading all the fun sayings and because my parents were older when they married & had us, my 3 brothers & I grew up hearing many of these! It’s like a walk down memory lane!!!

I have always wondered about the sayin “break a leg” which I take to mean to do a good job or have a great performance!

Thanks for the neat blog candy post-love it!!

I never understood the word “tabernack” by my Dad until I was an adult, and over in Quebec visiting my birth mother.. apparently, tabernack was a way to curse without using foul language back in the day. Sad that it took me almost 30 years to get an answer to that word.

The other saying I still don’t really get is ” you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar”… why would anyone want to catch flies, unless to kill them?

Hi Becca,

My family was full of idiots – oh, I mean idioms. When reading all of these posts, many of them were used frquently when I was growing up – as well as many, many more. One of my favorites was “You look like something the cat dragged in” when I would get up in the morning with my hair all a mess. Until I understood what it meant, I would always get excited when my father said he was “going to see a man about a horse” because I thought he was really going to get me the horse I so deperately wanted.

When I met my husband 30 years ago, he would always say “Six of one or half a dozen of another” and “my dogs are barking”. We still use them and laugh at each other. Thanks for the inspiration every day. You are truly blessed with this talent and can’t start the day without you. Thanks for the chance to win some great blog candy.

Well, I’ll be John Brown !

I say things like this all the time! A few my kids are like..huh? Then some time later they’ll start laughing and say OH I GET IT NOW !!

ROFL !

Thanks for the chance!

My father would say:”That’s slick as a whistle!” I only knew at the time it was a pretty good job! :)

Hello Becca,

You are such an inspiration to me and I’m thrilled to have discovered your website! Thanks for the opportunity to win such generous blog candy.
My sister’s favorite comment when something just doesn’t come out right is “Well! I’ve cut it off three times and it’s STILL too short!” I sometimes feel that way when I’m making cards. : ) You know, like perhaps I’m not the sharpest tack in the box!

Love in Him,

Hi Becca,
My young daughter is funny she has just turned 12 and has really came out of her shell.
When she is hot she will say “I’m roasting like a chicken” and then when shes cold she will say “I’m frozen like a fish”.
She is just adorable.
Thanks for the chance to win
Linda x

When my Mother would get upset or mad or confused instead of saying
bad words she would say ( What the bald head ) ? I know it
sounds crazy but it works.I am 66 have have worked most of
my life and retired 4 years ago to took care of her….she passed away
1 year ago last Jan.
I used that when I worked and allot of my fellow workers looked
at me like I was crazy…….but after a time allot of them started saying the same thing………..LOL. Better than saying something bad
Thanks for binging back memoies

I usually say when pigs fly & chickens have lips.

This brings back many great memeories. Thanks.

“You can’y have your cake and eat it too.” If I have cake, you better believe I’m eating it!

When pigs fly! I even own a cute little stamp from ages ago of a flying pig which I team up with a stamp of. dreams happen!

Hi Becca. One I have hear often is ‘madder than a wet hen.”

My father would also use the expression ‘cooking with gas’. Wonderful!

How about ‘n’er cast a clout till May is out’
Don’t take warm clothes off until the end of May!!

My dad used to say of someone who ate too much: “She eats like a bird. . .a VULTURE!”
Great fun reading these!

Becci, thanks again for your blog candy…

My mom would say…You are slower than molasses…

What fun! Everyone says I should right a book with the experiences and stories I can share :) Thanks for the chance to win blog candy!

This is so fun!
My Dad used to say-”Now we’re cookin’ with gas!”.
I heard that one alot growing up.
Thanks for the opportunity Becca!

Hello Becca…Hope to win this cool candy…my Mother when frustrated with me would sometimes say to me ‘ to bad you were hatched out on a stump’, it took awhile for me to figure this out, now I find myself occasionaly saying this myself, haha! Thanks for the opportunity. Lynn

Here’s another one from mom. “A leopard doesn’t change his spots.”

Thanks again.

How about “back to square one”? That is sometimes what I need to do when I am having a creative block – THAT, or wander through the great posts you share on your site, Becca. Thanks again for all you do!

my dh loves to watch the s.f. giants baseball games on tv. so i sit with him and read or whatever. those announcers come up with the strangest things, but the one that got me was when a batter hit a fly ball to the outfield and the announcer said, “now THAT was a can of corn!”
hunh???
sandyh

We used to have a saying in our office – No good deed goes unpunished.

One saying I have heard many times is, “I don’t chew my cabbage twice” meaning I don’t repeat things.
Mary

Hello Becca! I remember being asked if I was “raised on a farm” – English was not my Mothers first language! My Mother also said ” I don’t know everybody” when we wanted to do something and told her everyone else was allowed to. Thanks for the opportunity to win your generous candy.

my mom would always say a watched pot never boils which ment dont open the lid for else

What a fun “game”

A penny saved is a penny earned.

I was using my walker some time ago going up a ramp and my husband lovingly said to me: “Watch out the snail is passing you”.
I didn’t have a clue/he had to explain it to me.

Another one that my mom would say,,,(She’s not dry behind the ears)… she had more sayings… It’s funny just thinking about all her different sayings..

Here’s one I always thought was funny – she’s got a bun in the oven. Fun reading all the idioms.

My Mom’s “bless your pointed little head”. I saw my second cousin’s grandson for the first time a couple of weeks ago – anf the poot little thing must have had a hard birth, because his head was pointed. In my mind, I could hear my Mom and her quote!

My grandmother used to say “Practice Makes Perfect” when it was time to play the piano. While I hated to hear it at the time, the adage has proven true for lots of things over the years.

“People in hell want ice water too”…..I can still hear my mother saying that…..tfc

“Hit a lick at a snake….” – just love that one!

Another…I say this to my kid sometimes…usually in the toy aisle…
“You need another (insert toy name) like a fish needs a bicycle!”

BECCA BECCA MY MOTHER, GOD RES HER SOUL, ALWAYS SAID
“BECAUSE I AM THE MOTHER” AND THAT USED TO GET ME SO MED.
THANK YOU FOR OFFERING BLEG CANDY AGAIN. YOU HAVE A GOOD
HEART.

CYNTHIA

If my parents did not think it appropriate to tell me what they were doing, I got the response that they were “making a wigwam for a goose’s bridle” – I still have to figure that one out!

Thank you for an inspiring blog and your generous ‘candy’

I just can’t stop…here’s another favorite…

“Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.”

tee hee

So funny you would ask…..I just showed my DH a card I made that had “Hit a bend?” and he didn’t get it (run into trouble, having a difficult time, etc.). Thanks for the chance to win blog candy!

It raining its pouring the old man is sorning

My friend always says ” I’m sweatin’ like a pig in a hot pepper patch.”
She’s an aerobics instructor and we do some sweatin’.

My kids use to say they were going to do this or that amd I always told them, and sometimes still tell them to “fill your boots.” Which of course means to go ahead and do that.
Thanks for the chance to win…..you are so kind.

The cat’s out of the bag!

I still use “don’t count your chickens before they hatch”. I say it so much that anymore, I just say, “don’t count your chickens”. Also, don’t put the cart before the horse.

When someone was taking the own sweet time with something (driving, playing a game, etc.) my grandma would say “Pea or get off the pot”. That one always made me snicker.

As a kid growing up I remember my parents saying, He’s older than dirt”. Now that I am older I understand that was not a compliment.
Thanks for all the beauty that you share with us. I know my friends and I are in awe of your God given talent.

My mom used to say to me and my brother when we were acting up “you’re cruzin’ for a bruisin’”.

I love reading all the sayings. Although I”ve only used this saying to get a stunned response from friends it still makes me cringe and laugh. Friends from Arkansas used this saying the first time I meet them and my head spun around so fast. I could not believe what I heard. We were cooking and the 13 yr. old girl said “I’ll cook so you can “go about your rat killing” HUH?????? The Mom saw my reaction and laughed. She said it means you can go about your regular chores. I have NEVER heard that here Iowa so I assume its just something that southerners say.

Other fish to fry…compliments of Judge Judy!
Jan Castle

What a fun way to give out blog candy. Thank you for the opportunity to win.

I have a million of these….some not clean enough to share tho…..lol. My fiance gets so tired of my boys whining about how they “can’t Do something…..it’s too hard” So he tells them “can’t never could do nothing”

Meaning if you keep saying can’t and don’t try….then you’re right….you can’t!

Great question!!!

Growing up, if anyone talked about a “fast” woman, my mother would always say, “Why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free.”

When you are all standing around waiting for one person, one could say, “Let’s go, one monkey doesn’t stop the show.”

When I am being ungrateful, my husband likes to say, “You should be like the fat kid at the prom, just happy to be here.”

We have a dog that loves to get in his lap and he always says, “she’s all over me like I owe her money.” He is the king of idioms, I have a million but I will stop with these.

Oh, O.K. just one more. This one required explanation but when we first started dating I heard my DH tell a guy to “go pee up a rope” it’s kind of like, bug-off.

Thinking back to when I met my DH, I heard “if you are feeling froggy, then jump”. I had no idea what that meant…it means if you think you can hit me, go ahead and try. Oh, then there’s “d*mn skippy”… meaning – you’re right.

One I like is “as happy as a pig in mud”…. always seems to have a sense of fun and freedom and not a care in the world.

My Grandma use d to say “a penny for your thoughts”. What she wanted to buy my empty mind!

Your face is going to freeze like that……my mother would said…..

“Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched”
Thanks for the chance to win your blog candy.

Becca another saying that my friends use is,,, “Whatever blows up your skirt” or they say” Whatever bends your “boerewors”(sausage),,
have a lovely sunday.

Today I haven’t read all of the replies – but I remembered -
A watched pot never boils
Hugs, Candy

Nossy Nora! When you’re being nosey – lol!

My saying is. “The lights are on but nobody’s home”. meaning someone is silly.
Thanks Hilda

One i like to say to my grandchildren is “your eyes are bigger than your belly” and the look i still get from them is priceless.
thanks for the chance of blog candy.
margaret uk

The one idiom that keeps coming back to me is something that my mother would often say to us four kids around the dinner table when one of us wanted a second, or maybe a third glass of milk … What do you think, we have a cow in the back yard?

A hitch in your giddy-up
which means you’re not feeling well.
isn’t that cute!!
thanks Becca for sharing your lovely creations and offering these wonderful prizes!

Well I put my thinking cap on (more like trying to remember) and my DH used to say when trying to tell the children something important or make a point “Thats how the cow ate the cabbag!) Thanks for the chance to win the blog candy and enjoy the idioms!

How about “chew the fat”? That one’s kind of silly.

“Get your head out of the sand”. My parents told me that when they thought I was overlooking the obvious.

I used to think calling kids “curtain climbers” was kind of mean. Until the day I was babysitting my half brother, and he literally tried to climb up the curtains.

I have really enjoyed reading all of these. Most I’ve used at least once. I realize now my boys must have gotten so tired of hearing me say some of these things over and over again. I can bet though, that they are saying them to their children. They’re just never going to let me know. LOL

One of my favorites to use when someone tries to get me in the middle of something is “I don’t have a dog in this hunt.”

How about…”If you don’t stop frowning your face is going to freeze like that” Hard to understand that one in the middle of summer!

I don’t know if this fits with the category, but my Dad did a lot of carpentry work and he always said “measure twice, cut once”. Good advice for lots of things. Thanks for all your inspiration.

Lots of fun comments! One I use “you get what you pay for” and ” if it sounds to good to be true it probably is”.

I used to work with a tiny little nurse who would say she was “as hungry as a b*t*h wolf in polk berry time”. (She was from NC).

Just read the one above “measure twice, cut once”. My husband also uses that one. I wish my hairdresser would follow that rule. I just had a horrible experience this week. She said she cut off 3″ when in fact she cut at least 10″…..I’m trying to adjust UGHH
A saying I’ve used is “You are driving me up a wall”
thanks for everything Becca

My Mom always said “One hand washes the other.”

Living in the South for the first time in my life, I have been impressed with the abundance of idioms native southerners incorporate into their daily speech. It’s pretty fun, and I hear new ones all the time. One that made me laugh out loud was when an acquaintance ran into an old friend in the store and burst out with, “Oh Mary, I haven’t seen you in a hog’s age!” I still don’t know if I understand the “hog’s age” correlation (do hogs live an unusual length of time?), but it was lots of laughs!

My parents would say “Don’t let the cat out of the bag” meaning don’t share a secret about something.
Still enjoying reading everyone’s comments!

I am having so much fun reading everyone’s comments. Thanks for the chance to win Becca – you are so sweet. My brother says “handier than a pocket on a shirt”.

I never quite understood “stone the crows”… perhaps a farming origin for this one?

Interesting how we just take these sayings for granted and don’t think about them too much.

I think my favorite saying for now is “when ‘h’ freezes over and penguins sunbathe on Miami Beach”. Yep, that’s about how long it will be. I love your blog. I love seeing the things you make. I get great ideas.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

“No sense, no feeling!”
Thanks for the chance.

Becca,
Thank you for the blog candy offer. One saying I have heard a lot is, “That person is a brick shy of a load.” That means he is not too smart.
Mary

We had a cute saying a Costa Rica when it was drizzling really lightly: “esta yuviendo pelos de gato”. It’s raining cat hair.

My daughter came up with this one when pressured by her friends to break my rules, “Rules were meant to be straight, not broken”. Never heard that one before….but made me proud!

“you’re ears are on fire!”

How about…” Don’t beat around the bush” ..Have a great day :)

I heard this comment this morning at church — “loose as bb’s in a boxcar”. Never heard that one before.

Darn! I was out of town all weekend and missed out on the double play already. Oh well. If you pick me it’s for sure two people will win! LOL! Mu daughter is autistic and when she was little every time we said “It’s rain cats and dogs,” she would run to the window to look outside. She took everything literally! Now when we say that she’ll answer, “Don’t step on a poodle!” Have a great day!

One we hear alot these days seems to be “lights are on; no one’s home”. Nice way of saying what you’re thinking :-)

I like this one too: “Raining cats and dogs”- when it’s raining very heavely ( like today )
Have a wonderful day Becca!

Ok, so this is what my grandmother used to tell me “why buy the cow if you can get the milk for free”. LOL. When I told this one to my daughter all she said was “huh”?

How about “keep my fingers crossed for you”? Noticed it on your blog, and when you think about it – what does that really mean? I think that is a saying we have all probably used at one time or another. Thanks again for a very thought provoking challenge, Becca.

so hungry that I could eat a horse

Thanks for a great blog!

Look what the cat dragged in.

Well, I missed the Sunday morning word! Rats! But I can still play. . . .One of my dad’s favorites was that guy is “sharp as a mashed potato sandwich!”

Such fun. :)

Hi Becca, the comments are so good to read and I have heard so many of them. You sure like to take us down the old back roads with memories. One I have used is get off your high horses. Thanks for the fun.

I can’t beleive how long I’ve been sitting here. This is so much fun. Most of these are a blast from the past.

One I use all the time is “There’s more then one way to skin a cat.”

My Portuguese grandfather always said “Goats that bella lose time from eatin.” In other words shut up and eat.

For years Grandpa and Grandma would say two words in Portuguese when we sneezed. I always thought it was a blessing until I asked my father what it really meant. Translation was “You sound like a goat.” Go figure.
My father always said “Don’t spit up, it could fall back in your eye.” In other words don’t say something that could come back to haunt you.

Mom was full of sayings. If you smelt something she didn’t she’d say “You’re smelling your upper lip” and if something strange or unbelievable happened she’d say “Don’t be surprised if you see a jackass walking down the road without a tail.”
DH always says “The herd needs thining.” when ever he hears of someone doing something really stupid.
I always liked “The inmates are running the asylum.” And ” Nutty as a fruitcake.”
Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful candy and for making it so much fun I wont mind to much if I don’t win. Hoping I win though, especially those Nesties.
Hugs & Blessings
Bernie

From my sister: “well butter my buns and call me a biscuit!”

One that I modified from being ‘not family friendly’ was changed to ‘can’t tell their ear from their elbow”.
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Another saying that i have known from my youth is when something is dragging and I am impatient, the expession I use is that it is “As slow as a wet week in China” or “As slow as a wet month of Sundays”

Again neither rhyme nor reason to them. :-).

Blessings

One of my favorites is “I might have been born at night but it wasn’t last night” I say that often when someone is trying to pull one over on me.
Thanks Becca this is so much fun hearing one’s I haven’t heard for some time.

When I did something helpful, my Dad said I was as useful as a button on a shirt. That still makes me smile…

I was talking to my Uncle on the telephone and he said to me “Where are the Billie Lids?” This is an Australian term so you might not get and I have to confess I needed a translation but its rhyming slang meaning “Where are the kids?”

THanks for the chance to win, one of DH’s is “is a frogs butt watertight” the answer is yes because they apparently would sink/. I have no idea where he got that one.

Something I always say when I hurt myself around the house – like mash my finger, stump my toe, etc., is “Ouch! That hurt like an epilady!!!” I said it at work the other day and had to explain it to one of my employees. That made me feel really old since he had no idea what an Epilady is. Remember that tortuous invention that everyone bought, used one time, and threw away! Wow, did it ever hurt!!! Thanks for the chance at this wonderful stash!

There maybe snow on the roof, but there is
still fire in the chimney…

I totally love “self praise is no recommend”. Grandma used to say that about people that thought too much of themselves and said so.

I have 2 … “Happy as a clam at high tide” for someone who was extremely pleased. It’s pretty difficult to get clams unless the tides out… and “Yeah, and people in hell want ice water” for people who want and want and want something until you get sick of it.

That’s the cat’s pajamas! I still don’t understand that one!!!

“What… cat got your tongue”

When my Mom got caught in the rain or was hot and sweaty she always said “I look like a drowned rat!” I said that not long ago when our 7 year old granddaughter was with us and she thought it was so funny she had to tell her Mom & Dad about it when we got home. Thanks for all the inspiration Becca!

My Granddad used to say he was busier than a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs when he had too much to do. When I was little, I thought that was sooo funny. I could just picture that. Thanks for a chance to win your generous blog candy! I appreciate so much all your beautiful work Becca. And the fact that you teach us how to do these projects! Amazing! Blessings. Patty

The one that stumped me was “handy as a dog in a meat house”. For years I thought it was sarcastic and meant that someone underfoot and a nuisance.

Eventually, I learned that a long time ago, dogs ate the scraps and cleaned up the floor in slaughter houses. So they meant the dogs really were handy, lol.

How about “found it the last place I looked”

Lots of these are familiar – my mom always spouts idioms .. ‘a few minutes late and a dollar short’ … my favorite in referring to my daughter ‘like nailing jello to the wall’ (describes her exactly!) or when describing someone dull-witted ‘a few bricks short of a load.’
Thanks for the chance to win!

“sleeper hit” as in this movie is a “sleeper hit”…I know what it means but where did it come from??

BECCa BECCA DIDN’T THINK I WOULD EVER GET TO THE END. MY
HUSBAND ALWAYS SAYS “THAT WORKED BETTER THAN SNOT ON A
DOORKNOB” I ALWAYS SAY THEY ARE WEARING “HIGH WATERS”
MEANING THEIR PANTS ARE REAL SHORT.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE BLOG CANDY. SURE WISH IT WOULD BE ME
THIS TIME.
HOPE YOU ARE FEELING MUCH BETTER WITH THE LOSS OF YOUR FRIEND.

CYNTHIA

your goose is cooked!
don’t get your knickers in a twist

Becca, You are such a blessing! So incredibly talented and as generous a person as I’ve ever seen! What amazing blog candy! Being from the South, I’ve lived with so many of these that I don’t realize some of our idioms and expressions are not common elsewhere. One of my favs is “whatever trips your trigger!” My daddy used to tell us to be careful “not to buy a pig in a poke”. Aren’t we interesting creatures?
Thanks for the fun!
Debra

When I was a child and crying my Irish grandmother used to say “Your bladder’s too near to your eyeballs” and to my suprise when I went to see Ashes to Ashes the Irish grandmother told him exactly the same. Love your blog and reading all the others hope that this makes you laugh as much as some of them made me.

Regards

Ann

Here’s one that gets used a lot: “Water under the bridge”

When asked “How are you?” we answer “Fine as a frogs hair split down the middle!” Now…that is fine! LOL Love, love , love your site!

I work in a plus size women’s clothing store. A few years ago, one of my customers liked a top, and she said, “that’s phat!” One of the older employees not knowing what that meant, said “well, if you didn’t eat so much, you wouldn’t be.”

Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Talk to the hand.
Let’s to to the mall and mitzy motzy. (from my mother in law)
“He’s high as a kite” if someone appeared drunk.

“Penny wise and pound foolish.”

“Knock on wood”….

This is so much fun…!!!

‘land sakes’ is another I heard in childhood.

She’s “all that, and a bag of chips”.

Good morning Becca, come sit a spell and let’s chew the rag. This is somethng we use to say and still do in N.C. When someone is mad, you ask them who licked the red off your apple. Thanks for a chance to win the blog candy. It has a slew ( a lot ) of neat goodies.