Unusual catch phrases and sayings

[tinkbutt]

well here's a saying from princessanne MD not too far from me


HOLDER NEWT!!!! (hold on or wait just a minuet)

 

[artman]

From my inlaws in Newfoundland.

Stunned as me ar*e

Make sure you say it with a newfie accent.

 

[MenashaCorp]

He's as cool as the other side of the pillow...

 

[bcvdreamer]

My son's teacher says, "You get what you get, and you don't have a fit."



Lisa

 

[Dodie]

"It don't hurt to want." That was my dad's answer to my bugging him to buy me something.

"Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves." THAT was his advice too. Too bad I didn't heed that one more.

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

One I use alot: She's (or he's) not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

 

[NWOhioAngela]

Our many-generational response to the "I want, I want" from kids was always "People in hell want ice water, but that doesn't mean they're gonna get it"

 

[postesf]

Intead of 'Everybody AND their brother" I have a family member that says "Everybody in the brother" (very crowded...)

My husband always picks on me because I say "It's going to go to the bad" meaning...if something doesn't get eatten, drunk or whatever, it will spoil.

 

[Paul (tigger fan)]

My Irish grandfather used to say "That boy/girl has an excuse for everything, and an answer for nothing".

Usually in response to me or my sisters trying to dodge our chores around the house and our reasons why they were not done.

 

[WebmasterJohn]

Two I learned from Kevin's Mom:

Ann: "Does your face hurt?"
John: "No, why?"
Ann: "Because it's killing me."

********

John: "This meat is tough"
Ann: "It would tougher if you didn't have it."

Come to think if it she's quite sarcastic - guess that's why we get along so well

 

[mommyceratops]

My ex-BIL was describing a common friends girlfriend to me and he looks at me with this very serious look on his face and says...

"she looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!"

I spit my coke out my nose....

My new favorite one "it is what it is"

 

[MenashaCorp]

My new favorite one "it is what it is"

What, pray tell, does that *mean*??? I hear it all the time!!! Drives me nuts!!!

Is that like God/Yahweh -- "I Am the Great I Am?"

 

[cslittle999]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=It+is+what+it+Is

 

[peanut1967]

you know when kids ask that old age question 'why?'

'because Y not z thats why'

it shuts them up because they dont get it.

Also, when I am asked 'what?'

Usually I reply...
'60 in a lightbulb'

Angie

 

[wishspirit]

One I use alot: She's (or he's) not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

lol!

Yeah i use
- 'not the sharpest pencil in the box'
- 'one teddybear short of a picnic'

Ive heard the ugly tree thing, i have used that a few times, but only if someones mean!

 

[Miss Stitch]

A couple of my favs are "it's about as much use as a chocolate fireguard" and a reponse to me as a child when I asked for something unreasonable "Do you think its charity week".

For some reason a girl I used to work with used to say if it was hot "I'm sweating like a shepherd".

 

[meb7]

My husbands grandmother always says "he/she is as good as gold"

 

[Launchpad11B]

If I leave the lights on DW asks, "do you think I'm married to Con-Ed!" Maybe you have to be from NY to appreciate this one!

 

[ms*mountaineer]

"she looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!"

My dad would use that interchangeably with:

she took one too many dips in the ugly pond

and

looks like she got beat up-side the head with the ugly stick

(Dad must have known a lot of ugly people to need so many phrases!)


My personal favorite is:

He looks like he ran a 100 yard dash in a 90 yard gym.

 

[dpuck1998]

One of my new favorites

Bazinga!!

Lets see if I can repeat this one without getting in trouble.

My dads quote while doing carpentry work, "need a little hair around it?"

My random quote to confuse people "So, you like movies about gladiators"

My grandpa always said the "Off like a herd of turtles" also, and it never fails to crack me up.

"you can't fix stupid" (borrowed from blue collar)