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2. If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 09:59 PM

Sep 2013

That was my mom's favorite saying.

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"I didn't know him from Adam's housecat" and other sayings... [View all] steve2470 Sep 2013 OP

"The house was so small, there wasn't enough room to swing a dead cat." Squinch Sep 2013 #1

what's with all the fascination with dead cats lol steve2470 Sep 2013 #3

I guess dead cats were a thing. That people liked to handle a lot. Squinch Sep 2013 #11

If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a trolley car meow2u3 Sep 2013 #2

throwing the cat amongst the pigeons loli phabay Sep 2013 #4

"Crazier than an outhouse rat" n/t sarge43 Sep 2013 #5

"Couldn't hit a bull in the ass with a bass fiddle". n/t winter is coming Sep 2013 #6

It doesn't taste like it's spent the night where a blueberry's been. Denninmi Sep 2013 #7

"Shit fire and save the matches!" and "I see said the blind man walking off the cliff backwards" Rowdyboy Sep 2013 #8

Those are Southern colloquialisms. Behind the Aegis Sep 2013 #12

Don't we though! My uncle, a farmer used to say "That ain't no hill for a stepper" Rowdyboy Sep 2013 #31

When Things Got Rough, My Mother Would Always Say.... becca da bakkah Sep 2013 #9

If you looked sloppy, my mother would say "You look like Annie off the pickle boat." Squinch Sep 2013 #10

lmao never heard this one nt steve2470 Sep 2013 #13

"The Devil is beating his wife." Behind the Aegis Sep 2013 #14

The old folks used to say that when the sun was shining and it was raining at the same time. Arkansas Granny Sep 2013 #21

Us young (well kinda) folks say it too. Behind the Aegis Sep 2013 #23

I heard it as a kid in SW Missouri. I'm surprised Oklahoma folks didn't know it. Arkansas Granny Sep 2013 #24

I think it is a Southern phrase. I don't consider OK to be Southern. Behind the Aegis Sep 2013 #25

OK would certainly be insulted to hear that, Sentath Sep 2013 #39

Actually, I don't think they would be. Behind the Aegis Sep 2013 #40

Two from January mornings sharp_stick Sep 2013 #15

yea, the witch's tit one always puzzled me a tad nt steve2470 Sep 2013 #17

Witches tit (or teat) goes back to the 16th century hack89 Sep 2013 #18

Cool sharp_stick Sep 2013 #19

Older southern folks also used "Colder than a well-diggers ass in Idaho" Rowdyboy Sep 2013 #33

"Ugly words and filthy phrases!" Aristus Sep 2013 #16

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"It's raining pitchforks and hammer handles" was one of my mother's sayings. Arkansas Granny Sep 2013 #20

My dad would say: "he's not playin' with a full deck" and "his elevator doesn't go to the top floor pink-o Sep 2013 #22

My fave is "The porch light is on, but no one is home!" Behind the Aegis Sep 2013 #26

"They're so poor, they don't have a pot to piss in." Squinch Sep 2013 #27

"He's so dumb he couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel" Rowdyboy Sep 2013 #30

LOLOLOLOL!!! Squinch Sep 2013 #34

Mike Malloy's , "sack of doorknobs." Graybeard Sep 2013 #29

torn up like a snake in a lawnmower arely staircase Sep 2013 #32

It'll never be seen on a galloping horse. antiquie Sep 2013 #35

Here's another: Slower than molasses running uphill in January. Arkansas Granny Sep 2013 #36

"I'd rather drink turpentine and piss on a grass fire"... awoke_in_2003 Sep 2013 #37

lmao too funny ! nt steve2470 Sep 2013 #38

"I trust him about as far as I can sling a piano" TorchTheWitch Sep 2013 #41

"can't win a piss fight with a skunk" and.... steve2470 Sep 2013 #42