Odd expressions you've heard now & then

[JBR]

Here's one said in low tones with a frown, in disapproval of the flavor or texture of food: "Tastier than a cork trivet."
Oh, and another... remark someone made after coming back from a friend's house: "Buddy was vinegar-faced when he got off that call from his boss."

 

[Dustbunny]

Texans have a lot of odd expressions. Like others, they all mean something.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

It don’t take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.

Don't hang your wash on someone else's line.

 

[hollydolly]

I wouldn't know where to start with British -sms.. we have 4 countries here to choose from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales ..all with their own expressions, and within each of those countries are dialects and expressions which are different from North to South, East to West

 

[Paladin1950]

My mother used to tell us, "Hold your puckering string!", whenever we were in a hurry about something.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Expressions I haven't heard for a long time :
"Catch yourself on" or "wise up" . To stop being so ridiculous and to come back down to Earth.

"Good folks scarce" a dismissive comment about someone who is acting in a pompous or superior manner.

 

[Wayne]

"Wake up and go to sleep."
"They are best to avoid."

 

[Rakaia]

A dingo's breakfast, a piss and a look around.

 

[oscash]

What about, "Drier than a dead dingo's donger". ?
and, "He was happy as a dingo with a gold tooth"
also, He was so thin, just like a dingo - all dick and ribs.

 

[dilettante]

One that my brothers and later my sons and lots of friends use that seems to escape a lot of people:

Said in low tones: "Mmm, Juicy Fruit."

It's quoting a character's dialog in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and means "This sure is nuts" or alternatively based on context "See, I'm not the one who is nuts here."

 

[MountainRa]

If you want to speak Southern from USA just add the word “up” to verbs.
We wash up , sweep up, cook up, warm up, call up, and so on.

You can get a little more complicated by using ”up and”. As in -
He up and quit. She up and got mad. They up and moved.
That dog just up and died.
We have a lot of expressions using the word “up”

 

[perplexed]

Don't get your panties in a wad or bunch! (meaning calm down)

Your just as cute as a button or bugs ear.

I am full as a tick.

I am worn slap out!

 

[Ruthanne]

Well I'll be a son of a...gun!

 

[ElCastor]

My dad grew up in a sod house on the Montana prairie and liked to recount what it was like venturing to the out house during a winter morning. He had a favorite saying I heard many times …
”Colder than a witch‘s tit”. Another favorite, “Faster than a striped assed ape”.

 

[jujube]

Another Southernism: "Fixin' to..."

In the process of getting ready to do something..... not necessarily "right now", but definitely more than "thinkin' on" (which is another Southernism).

 

[hollydolly]

What about, "Drier than a dead dingo's donger". ?
and, "He was happy as a dingo with a gold tooth"

I think you Australians have us all beat...

 

[Naturally]

Entertain a clown and you become part of the circus
And ... not my monkeys not my circus

 

[Beezer]

When a person in a car drives too slow in front of me I mumble...

"Do your sleeping at night"

When I was a teenage boy I bought an expensive set of golf clubs from this shady outfit. They turned out to be junk and I got taken advantage of. I showed the set to my Dad and he said...

"Son. They didn't see ya coming, they sent for you."

 

[perplexed]

Another Southernism: "Fixin' to..."

In the process of getting ready to do something..... not necessarily "right now", but definitely more than "thinkin' on" (which is another Southernism).

lol I have said fixin too many of time lol lol

 

[hollydolly]

When a person in a car drives too slow in front of me I mumble...

"Do your sleeping at night"

When I was a teenage boy I bought an expensive set of golf clubs from this shady outfit. They turned out to be junk and I got taken advantage of. I showed the set to my Dad and he said...

"Son. They didn't see ya coming, they sent for you."

I like that last one

 

[JBR]

A dingo's breakfast, a piss and a look around.

A dingo's breakfast I understand... around here people refer to a mess of some sort as "a dog's breakfast". Similar.
So in what situation would "a piss and a look a round" be used?

 

[JBR]

Another Southernism: "Fixin' to..."

In the process of getting ready to do something..... not necessarily "right now", but definitely more than "thinkin' on" (which is another Southernism).

But if he almost never gets to doing it... I've heard it said "He's a mud-mired moper."

 

[RadishRose]

lol I have said fixin too many of time lol lol

Further, they say they'll be "fixing" whatever for supper. Or I'm going to "fix" lunch now.

Why, was it broken? LOL.

 

[Naturally]

Momma always said, "Life is like a box of chocolates."

 

[RadishRose]

I read a good one from our @CinnamonSugar today:

"... a look that would stop fast moving lava" ! LOL, I love it.

 

[Rakaia]

A dingo's breakfast I understand... around here people refer to a mess of some sort as "a dog's breakfast". Similar.
So in what situation would "a piss and a look a round" be used?

This is totally unrelated to the dog's breakfast.
Sometimes there's not much in the Outback, so that is the best available.