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One Liners

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muggle

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Steffee's "Give me Some Advice" topic prompted me to start a topic on one-liners. There are many old sayings, most of which had a meaning, that are being lost through the ages. Lets try to remember as many of them as possible. I will start with a few:

Handier than a pocket on a shirt.

Green as grass.

Colder than a frog's behind.

He / She is a few pickles shy of a crock.
 
Smoother than a gravy sandwich
Right as rain
Good as gold
A few sandwiches short of a picnic
Lights are on, but nobody's home.
Wheel is turning, hamster's dead.
Feel out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Hit rock-bottom and started to dig
 
Few fries short of a Happy Meal
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Not the brightest crayon in the box.
Between you, me, and the fencepost...
 
As tight as a duck's a**e (stingy with money)
As much use as a chocolate teapot / fireguard
Where there's muck there's brass
 
Here's some from my mom:

"To each their own," said the old lady as she kissed the cow.

Colder than a well-digger's bottom in Siberia

Older than dirt

I'm a poet and didn't know it. Look at my toes, their long fellers! :rolleyes:

You can get glad in the same rags you got mad in

So your friends want to jump off a cliff; doesn't mean you have to


And from my mother in law:

"I've got enough food here for Cox's army!" (I always wondered who this Cox fellow was)

Sore as a-risin'

My OWN cousin..As in "she was my own cousin."..(must be an Arkansas thing?)
 
A coon's age.."I haven't seen you in a coon's age."

Old as the hills and twice as dusty

spitting image..:"That child is the spitting image of his daddy."

more than Carter has pills..used to mean a large quantity..Carter was as an over the counter pain medication

Like it or lump it.

Get off your high horse.

Dumb like a fox

red-headed stepchild..used to refer to someone treated badly.."You'd think she was a red-headed stepchild.' (always puzzled me, since I always wanted red hair like my classmate Liz)

born on the wrong side of the blanket

wrong side of the bed...if I was grumpy, mom would ask me if I got up on the wrong side of the bed that morning..
 
More nervous than a whore in church.

When god said "let there be light" she flicked the switch.

Ugly as homemade sin.

That child has the mark of the beast! (Looks exactly like dad)

Skinny as a rail.

Oh, Poor thing has a terrible case of Dunlap syndrome. (Belly is so large it has done lapped over the belt of the pants)

Wow..... do these sayings expose my southern roots?
 
Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

Don't monkey with that.

If it'd been a snake it would'a bit ya. (my Dad used to say that one )
 
Up s**t creek without a paddle

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

It's so cold it'd freeze the b***s off a brass monkey:D
 
Get off the grass (means "no way" here)
Sweating like a paedophile in a children's playground
Taken a beating with the ugly stick
 
We're cooking with gas
There's trouble in River City
Tut tut, looks like rain (from Winnie the Pooh)
It's all parked up (meaning no parking spaces left)
 
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