sayings

[trof]

What are some of the more colorful or descriptive sayings you use or have heard?

"I dropped him like overalls at quitting time." (knocked him down)
"Darker than the inside of a bruised crow."
"You're in a world of hurt." (big trouble)
"Tougher'n railroad spikes."
"JUst cause the cat has her kittens in the oven, we don't call 'em biscuits." (I don't care how long you've lived here, ya still ain't one of US.)

Whaddaya got?

[wysimdnwyg]

1. He beat him like...

a rented mule!

[jimbo fett]

2. Flipped him like a cheese omelette.

[Toby109]

20. Dropped him like third period French

[jimbo fett]

3. Finer than frogs' hair. (comely) Slicker than sh*t. (really cool)

[Goldom]

4. You froze me like a bad Hors D'oeuvre!

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Colder than a stepmother's breast.

n/t

[myrna minx]

6. ANYTHING uttered by Dan Rather...

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blratherisms.htm

"I think you would likelier see a hippopotamus run through this room than see George Bush appoint Ralph Nader to the Cabinet."

"None of this television mumbo jumbo, let's get in there and count the votes."

"Frankly we don't know whether to wind the watch or to bark at the moon."

"We've lived by the crystal ball, we're eating so much broken glass. We're in critical condition."

[Lostmessage]

7. You look like you got hit in the face with a bag of nickels

Dumber then a bag of hammers :shrug:.

[AlabamaYankee]

8. It wonders me

It's a fine Pennsylvania Dutch phrase, but when i use it here people look at me funny. But then, my wife looks at me REAL funny when I tell here that "I might could do something."

[NewHampster]

9. Colder than a Witches Tit in a Brass Bra

[jimbo fett]

10. Like two puppies wrestling in a pillowcase. (bouncy bosoms)

[Toby109]

11. "I'm gonna jerk a knot on your head"

Threat from my Dad, if I didn't "straighten up and fly right".

[trof]

15. I gonna snatch a knot in you as long as a railroad.

???
My grandpa.
Never quite figured out what that meant, but I knew it wasn't good.

[Semi_subversive]

12. Noisier

than two skeletons screwing on a tin roof.

Dumber than boiled gravel.

[Kamika]

13. It's time to kick ass...

and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of gum.

[WWW]

14. Like putting pantyhose on a wildcat

Something difficult. Obviously :)

[Endangered Specie]

16. Greased lightning (fast); Build like a brick shithouse (Strong/unbreakable

[Limbought]

25. "Build like a brick shithouse"

Gee, I thought this was a comment about a woman who was really stacked.

Who knew ......... LOL

[ewagner]

17. Got hit by the ugly stick ...

and went back for seconds.

He/She's about 2 furrows wide.....

Uglier than homemade sin.

[TEXASYANKEE]

18. When someone asks if you want to do something

Reply with "Might as well, can't dance, and the field's too wet to plow."

Or, I beat him like a red-headed stepchild.

[Endangered Specie]

19. He must think his shit dont stink (egotistic)

[Cuban_Liberal]

21. Like a gunny sack full of bunnies.

For a woman wearing tight pants. :P

[mykpart]

22. So hungry

I could eat the pussy of a menstruating skunk!

[bubblesby2002]

23. Had a face like 10 miles of unpaved road

n/t

[TheMightyFavog]

24. some of mine...

Dropping fater than Bob Packwood's pants at a job fair.
Smells worse than a Point Beer fart.
It's a tit nipply out. (it's cold outside)
Who pissed in your lemonade? (What's got you so mad?)
Dumber than a bus full of Bears fans.

[Limbought]

26. "She was soooooooooo ugly, her face could stop a clock."

[Dogmudgeon]

27. Yiddish

Toochiss ahfen tish! - "Ass on the table!" -- Put up or shut up
Nikht hak mein chainik - "Don't bang on my teapot" -- Stop bothering me
Gey kahk in ze meer - "Go shit in the sea!" -- Go do something meaningless
Nit dos iz sheyn, vos iz sheyn, nor dos, vos es gefelt -- Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes.
Der mentsh trakht, un Got lakht -- "A man thinks, and God laughs" (literal).
Vos noenter tsu der shul, alts vayter fun Got -- "The nearer to the school (synogogue or church), the further from God".

There's more. Oh, yes, many more!

--bkl
A Goyische Mamzer mit Yiddishe Foter.

[Iris]

28. Moses on a pony!

[mantis49]

29. More nervous that a cat in a room full of rocking chairs

[LincolnMcGrath]

30. Shaking like a dog shitting tacks!