Old country sayings
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Wound up like a cat sh*tting razor blades.
Sweating like a ***** in church.
Sweating like a German butcher.
So dumb he couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
Piss on it. (Instead of “to hell with it”).
Sweating like a ***** in church.
Sweating like a German butcher.
So dumb he couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.
Piss on it. (Instead of “to hell with it”).
After a fashion. It means "sort of." As in: Did you fix the door? A: After a fashion
Up and At Em, Rise and Shine.
Up and At Em, Rise and Shine.
"Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades."
"Still talkin'?"
My grandpa, old school farmer, a doer not a talker. Heard him say this throughout my youth to pretty much anyone who was yapping too much.
My grandpa, old school farmer, a doer not a talker. Heard him say this throughout my youth to pretty much anyone who was yapping too much.
More tired than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
Grandpa always would say….We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.
This ain’t my first rodeo which garnered a response from someone taking part in the conversation……”and every rodeo needs a clown.”
Grandpa always would say….We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.
This ain’t my first rodeo which garnered a response from someone taking part in the conversation……”and every rodeo needs a clown.”
This one's attributed to Lyndon Johnson: "Don't trust a man until you have his pecker in your pocket."
I also like to throw this one out on hot days: "It's hotter than two goats in a pepper patch."
I also like to throw this one out on hot days: "It's hotter than two goats in a pepper patch."
I always understood "Going to see a man about a horse" is when you have to go take a piss. I never knew it was for other things too.
"Running around like a chicken with it's head cut off" when someone is either going berserk or just extremely busy/energetic.
The oldie, "Knee high by the fourth of July" for corn progress. Of course, these days, it is pretty much knee high by around middle of June and chest high by fourth of July.
"Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor's take warning" Weather forecasting.
Good enough for a town this size and the girls we go with.
Grew up on a farm.....both from dad:
when mom was mad "she's on the warpath" and when mom's mom(his in law)arrived for a visit "where did she park her broom".
when mom was mad "she's on the warpath" and when mom's mom(his in law)arrived for a visit "where did she park her broom".
When my grandpa would injure a finger he would yell out “knuckle deep” and run home. No idea what he meant but Grandma always seemed to be in a good mood once we got back to the house.
A country block was the section roads (1 mile square is a section) and there was generally a road every mile.
I learned it as gonna go #2
A variation that meant the same was “gonna go see a man about a thing”
