Colloquialisms [promises to be Unutterably Silly]

[fifteenjugglers]

Aaah BOb... That's as dry as a Pom's towel! You're blood's worth bottling.

Here's me carrying on like a pork chop. Time for a Dingo's breakfast and then off to earn a crust.

[Greg Anos]

Time to boogie, bwana.

[fifteenjugglers]

Better rug up. It's cold as a witch's pap outside.

[NatCh]

Is that cold enough to freeze the boogers out of a penguin, or just colder than a grave-digger's toes?

The opposite of which would of course be hotter'n a whorehouse on nickel night.

[RWood]

Make like hockey and get the puck out of here.

[Greg Anos]

Here's an old mainframer colloquialism. When a mainframe program failed, requiring a printout of the state of program at failure point, it was referred to as "blowing it's beets".

[Maggie May]

Hi,

How about.....He has a face only a mother could love.

He's not playing with a full deck.

She must be a good singer....She has legs like a lark.

She's 2 inches over a milk bottle, only for her high heels she would be lost.

Would you look at the state of him, he must have been dragged through a bush backwards.

She has a mouth as Big as a barn door you could drive a coach and four through it.

That's my lot.

Slan,
Mag.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

This thread makes me more nervous than a long tail cat in a room full of rocking chairs... no, make that a sparrow at a skeet shooting contest. I've gotta tell you, I should probably stop reading this thread because I can't afford to pay attention.

Boy, I'm funnier than a screen door on a submarine

Heard said to Marty McFly... why don't you make like a tree and beat it.

BOb

Originally Posted by fifteenjugglers

Is that similar to making like a shepherd, and getting the flock out of here?

Originally Posted by pilotbob

No, more like make like a drum and leave.

BOb

aïe aïe aïe...

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Well, being an Australian, I am completely unfamiliar with any colloquialisms, and might have to leave this thread alone.

Besides, today I'm as busy as a cat burying shit, and I'll be flat out like a lizard drinking all day. No doubt this banana bender'll end up as dry as a dead dingo's donger and I'll knock the top off a coldie later, no doubt.

So, rather than sitting here in this thread standing out like dogs' balls, I'll have to shoot through and be off like a bucket of prawns in the sun. I'll still be within cooee though, not down the far end of the long paddock, so if you want to give me an earbashing, don't get all cross as a frog in a sock. Just say g'day and I'll be down quicker than I can skull a throw-down.

Hooroo,
Marc (a coupla snags short of a barby)

you're right, that's really nothing to beat a cat over. i wouldn't make a whole cheese out of it. but i won't say anything, i wouldn't want anyone to try to set my clock to the hour or dot my "i"s... you are after all a pretty big vegetable around here.

you know, this whole thread just seems like a search for the 5 legged sheep.

[zelda_pinwheel]

y'all amaze me. seriously, you ask me for a list of colloquialisms and my brain goes blank. i have to give my tongue to the cat. i'm wearing my small shoes now, i can tell you. and you just keep rolling them out at every side of the field.

i'm trying to do my part, so you won't start breaking sugar on my back, since everyone seems to be all fire and flame for this thread. i just hope it won't all end in the tail of a fish... i'd hate to see you start serving grimace soup. but you might be looking for noon at 2 o'clock with me. just don't go searching for the little bug, that's all i ask.

anyway i should stop telling stories that will put you to sleep standing up, i've got plenty of bread on the board. i have to hurry up, i don't want to get caught between dog and wolf. i've been putting it off because it's raining and i would've been soaked like a soup.

sorry, i guess the day i think of some colloquialisms it will be the week of 4 thursdays.

[slayda]

Originally Posted by NatCh

That one's going on my list!

Here's another of my favorites: Why are you grinning like a donkey with a mouth full of bumblebees?

The non-Texas version is; "Grinning like a mule eating briers." And I would have expected you to come up with; "You look like you've been rode hard & put up wet."

I guess "Spider on the ceiling" is like "Bats in the belfry."

The one I've gotten the most grief from (outside the Southern US) is "fixin' to do something" like "I'm fixin' to go to the store."

[slayda]

I feel more like I do now than when I first got here. And Of all the people I know, you're one. "Y'all come back now, ya hear!"

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by slayda

The non-Texas version is; "Grinning like a mule eating briers." And I would have expected you to come up with; "You look like you've been rode hard & put up wet."

I guess "Spider on the ceiling" is like "Bats in the belfry."

The one I've gotten the most grief from (outside the Southern US) is "fixin' to do something" like "I'm fixin' to go to the store."

Good Morning! I'm fixin' to go over yonder [Ed: to the 1st floor cafeteria] and get me some biscuits and gravy, but reading this had me so tickled that I nearly fell out [Ed: of] my chair. Stay out the sun, it's gonna be a hot one. Bless all y'all's hearts now.

[NatCh]

Well, I declare, if you lot weren't busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest overnight! I didn't expect everyone to get all over this like a june-bug on a duck, but you've whipped it like a rented mule, stomped it like a bull with a bee up his butt, and beat it like a red-headed step-child!

Originally Posted by slayda

The non-Texas version is; "Grinning like a mule eating briers." And I would have expected you to come up with; "You look like you've been rode hard & put up wet."

Now you're just pickin' fly $#!^ from pepper.

You wouldn't want me to blow my whole list in a single post, would you? That'd be about as useless as teats on a rain-barrel. Then the whole thread wouldn't last as long as it took the water to get hot, and we'd all just drop off it like a lead sinker faster than grass through a goose. Then I'd be left with a face long enough to eat corn from a coke bottle.

I must say, though, this thread has demonstrated irrefutably that you lot are about as stable as a three-legged dog at a fire-hydrant.

Well, I've got other threads to catch up on this morning, so I'm off like a jug handle.

[Danny Fekete]

"Dumber than a sack of tongues," has been one of my favourites for a while. Also, apparently a Greyhound Bus/Train colloquialism is "we're off like a herd of turtles."

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by NatCh

Well, I've got other threads to catch up on this morning, so I'm off like a jug handle.

Sounds like you don't know whether to scratch your watch or wind your butt.

Now I'm gonna have to look up your address!

BOb