family sayings

[JimsDana]

The Hubby still uses "We need to light a shuck."

[irish]

My Great Grandmother used to say..."Thanks for the buggy ride"....after we took her out n' about.

[Mairte]

Merlin,lol, probably both of us!

[DonaCatalina]

I had a phrase pop up on me that I hadn't thought of in awhile.
'Hotter than a $2 pistol'.

[Baron Frederick]

One I heard just the other day  "hope my ship comes in before the dock rots "

[Lady Toadflinger]

 When we whined about some trivial problem, my mother used to say, "I feel for you...but I can't quite reach you."

[Mairte]

Here's one "if push comes to shove".

[JimsDana]

I saw my Uncle James, he reminded me of his favorite, "Well that went over like a t?rd in a punch bowl!".
Yes my family is much stranger than others.

[Mairte]

Ours is "well, that went over like a lead balloon".

[DonaCatalina]

Since Thanksgiving is close, this one came up again. "Fuller'n a tick on a fat hound dog".

[Merlin the Elder]

I saw my Uncle James, he reminded me of his favorite, "Well that went over like a t?rd in a punch bowl!".
Yes my family is much stranger than others.

My dad used to say "like a t?rd in a churn..."  You aren't as strange as you think! 

[Bob of the Lake]

Talk of Thanksgiving reminds me how after we had all eaten too much, my Dad would lean back in his chair, pat his belly and say, "stick me with a fork--I'm done!"

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

When I was in college, I spent my junior year abroad.  I rented a room from a widow in Paris.  On several occasions, she would invite me to eat with her and her family when they came over for dinner.  After they finished eating, when they were "stuffed to the gils" (something our family has always said), inevitably someone in her family would say, "J'ai un petit trois mois."

Translated slang:  "I'm 3 months pregnant."  But they meant they were full from eating. 

The first time I heard it, one of her son in laws said it, and they all laughed at the puzzled look on my face as I wondered what he was talking about saying he was pregnant.

[DonaCatalina]

I remember when I was very young, maybe about 5 or 6, when I first heard 'trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear'.
I knew what I sow's ear was since I had helped feed pigs once I was old enough to climb the fence.
But I had a hard time imagining how many pigs' ears it would take to make my stepmother's humungous handbag. When I finally asked my aunt for an explanation she died laughing before she showed me my great grandmother's tiny clutch bag that she had stored in a cedar chest. Then she explained the whole saying to me.

[Lady Toadflinger]

My mother used to say two different things about having good sense: He doesn't have enough sense to pound sand down a rathole. and: She doesn't have the sense God gave geese. Hmmm... Would a goose pound sand down a rat hole?