odd sayings?

[UrsulasShadow]

S/he's a hot ticket! (Means s/he's fun or funny). Still use it myself, but get lots of funny looks.
How's things? Oh, just ducky! (sarcastic for "just fine"). Alternately, "just peachy" or "nippah keen cool".

 

[UrsulasShadow]

Where does

"It always comes in 3's come from"

Anytime someone famous passes away, someones pregnant, to a sneeze, someone is always commenting it comes in 3's?????

Cuz it always does.

 

[MyGoofy26]

A line I've never heard outside of my house: "Keep dreaming Alice, Wonderland's just around the corner!" Heard that a lot as a kid when I'd ask for a new toy, LOL.

I still remember my grade school gym teacher, anytime someone would trip he'd yell out, "Have a nice trip? See ya next fall!"

Not exactly the same as what you all are talking about. . . but funny sayings nonetheless.

 

[KerriSue]

Good Night Nurse

My Grandpa always said this, Ive actually used it myself. Im not sure why you would say goodnight to the nurse but it still makes me smile.

Get the lead out

 

[Huggles]

My family seems to have a wealth of these things and my DH never ceases to be amused by them.

"A*se over *it" is our version of your teakettle thing but it becomes "base over apex" in polite company.
"You could spit peas through it" is describing something threadbare or worn.
" Goes round your heart like a hairy worm" to describe that warm fuzzy feeling...like a mug of steming hot chocolate after a long spell in freezing temperatures.
Those are but a few of our favourites but we have so many it sometimes seems like we have a language all our own!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

OMG..you guys are cracking me up.

One that I started using back in HS is "I'm audie." for "I'm outta here." I think I got it from the movie Clueless.

Another one I use sometimes is "Snootchie bootchie!", which I borrowed from the movie Mallrats.

When DH leaves the house to go to work, I usually tell him to have fun storming the castle (taken from The Princess Bride).

When we can't decide which direction we're supposed to go, DH and I sometimes look at each other and say "Well, would you go LEFT or ROIGHT?" in a very bad English accent (taken from Jim Henson's Labyrinth).

TOV

 

[LuvN~Travel]

One I never understood was when people, usually from the South say "I'm fixin to go to the store, etc." What in the world does that mean? I guess you have to "fix" to go to the store before you actually do it?

Actually it is the dictionary just as we use it. A very good verb form.
Kim

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I hope this is allowed on the DIS. My grandmother says it, my mother says it, and I have caught myself saying it. A man/woman who is a little, um, "easy," are called ring-tail-tooters. Don't ask me where it came from, it's just made it's way through the family.

 

[Southern4sure]

Never ask my mom what time is it bacause she will always say..."two hairs past a freckle".

My dads favorite: "That ain't worth an ants pee" usually to mean it's not important.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

My family seems to have a wealth of these things and my DH never ceases to be amused by them.

"A*se over *it" is our version of your teakettle thing but it becomes "base over apex" in polite company.
"You could spit peas through it" is describing something threadbare or worn.
" Goes round your heart like a hairy worm" to describe that warm fuzzy feeling...like a mug of steming hot chocolate after a long spell in freezing temperatures.
Those are but a few of our favourites but we have so many it sometimes seems like we have a language all our own!

There you go pointing out another one....

Sit a spell...a long spell

 

[disneygals]

My grandmother always said "They'll never notice it on a galloping horse." I still say that one too. Another one that I say but I'm not sure where it came from is, "You think I fell off of a turnip truck?" I always would threaten to "Paddle" my kids. My friends found that very funny.

'You can't see it from the Hudson" (NY river)...I think I got it from my mil

 

[jama]

My Dh says (to someone mad or whiny)...
"Who licked the red from your candy?"

 

[snowman]

My grandmother was great for weird sayings. Some of her classics include
"A** over band box" (local variation on the tea kettle perhaps).
"What out for the pippsy-wahs and swamp-gomp-ahsses" (general warning designed to keep us out of places we didn't belong).
"Wash your hands before you eat or you'll get pip-dally-lou on the liver"

I'm also partial to
"Doesn't have the brains God promised a clam shell"
"They're from away" (A Maine expression to describe...well, everybody but native Mainiacs )

 

[laurajetter]

My grandmother would say:

1. "How do you like them apples?" = "well what do you think of that?"

2. "...in 2 shakes of a cat's tail." in reference to how fast something would be done.

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

where did "one smart cookie" come from? I just heard that today and it made me think of this thread. I've used it myself: "she's a smart cookie" - as if any baked good could ever be intelligent!

 

[pittypat]

Here is the south we preface a really rude remark about someone by saying, "well, bless his/her heart, but...". Guess we think that excuses us from saying our rude stuff! One year my husband had alot of Norweigan students and later learned that they meticulously wrote down all these bizarre idioms that he'd say in class. Then they'd get together later to compare notes and see if anyone knew what the heck he was talking about!!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

My Dh says (to someone mad or whiny)...
"Who licked the red from your candy?"

DH says "Who peed in your cornflakes?".
I also just remembered one my grandmother used to say to get us to shut up.
"Lissen lissen, cat's a P*ssin!"

I have NO idea where that one came from.

TOV

 

[tiff211]

Last week a girl at my job said "it was so quiet you could hear a gnat pee on cotton!" Now THAT's quiet!

 

[dorothyywittick]

ready for the all time winner?

Whenever myself or one of my six siblings would ask her for something that annoyed her, she would say "How are you fixed for spit?" She has been gone for 3 years now and my biggest regret was not finding out what the hell she meant.

In the 60s, and possibly before that, people often ‘borrowed’ a cigarette from another person. Then they often asked for a light as well. “How are you fixed for spit?” was a comeback from the lender. I STILL USE THE SAYING ALL THE TIME (do you have a piece of paper? and a pen?) ... the use is unlimited!!

 

[Jdbsfw]

11 years later.......