A phrase

"he moves as slow as molasses in january"

More Grandma

" Why scratch your a$$ with a blackberry bush when you can use a feather"

"I'll pound you so low you'll have to pull down your socks to see."

"You're as useless at teats on a bull."

"This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you." I never agreed with this one.

After the one time I made the mistake of faking a swing at my father, while looking up from the floor, "Never mess with the Marines."

From my mother-in-law: "It's all cattywumpus (means messed up)."

Did anyone ever respond "Yes" to "Were you raised in a barn?" and paid the price?

Basketball coaches are usually intense. My son could tell when his middle school coach was ticked. He would say, "Gosh darn it, guys."

Going back to childhood, every neighborhood had two kids having this argument. My dad was in the Army. He could beat up your dad. Oh yeah, well my uncle was a Marine and he could beat up your dad who was in the Army."

From my Dad

"Son, why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"

"Son, don't settle for hamburger when you can get steak!"

Wait till your father gets home.(Mom)

I like two kinds of pie, hot and cold.(Grandpa)

You gotta stop running sometime.(Dad)

oye fey

It's "oy vey" or "oy vay."

This brings up an entirely new avenue of Yiddish I heard as a kid. My grandmother would call us "mashugina" when she thought we were out of our minds. It's Yiddish for crazy.

Is the pope catholic?

Does a bear sh%@#$t in the woods?

And from my Italian immigrant grandfather who spoke little english. When he wanted to say "not like it used to be", it came out "no usta was"

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Originally posted by RJM:
It's "oy vey" or "oy vay."

אױ װײ

Here we go again.

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Originally posted by RJM:
It's "oy vey" or "oy vay."

This brings up an entirely new avenue of Yiddish I heard as a kid. My grandmother would call us "mashugina" when she thought we were out of our minds. It's Yiddish for crazy.

There is no english translation for yiddish. oy vey, oye fey, oy vay either way is the same.

BTW, here in Florida a michigana is a crazy person from michigan. LOL.

My mom's use of the word "Bejesus" always makes me laugh.

Well, I vote it's "oi vey" And even though I'm Irish-Catholic, as I know the correct use of the word 'schnorer' (amongst others), I get a vote!

Speaking of Irish, 1228, it's "bejaysus" and you just made me feel very, very old. Your mother, indeed!

"I hope someday you will have a (son/daughter) who will drive you crazy just like you do me".

I'll be that one is still used quite often.

Since fillsfan used a clever way to disguise his words, I'll throw in a few classic F-Bombs. If anyone is offended, I'll remove this post....

F*** You!
F*** Me!
F*** this place!
F*** you and the horse you rode in on!
What the F*** are you doing?
I don't give a flying F***!
Who the F*** cares?

Note that the proper use of these type of expressions are almost always followed by an exclamation point!

I believe it's "you and the horse you rode in on!"

Bronx candy store charm-"You gonna buy that magazine or what? This aint no library" -Benny the friendly candy store owner

-"when it's windy, does your head whistle?"

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Originally posted by Baseballdad1228:
I believe it's "you and the horse you rode in on!"

Ooops

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Originally posted by Orlando:
Well, I vote it's "oi vey" And even though I'm Irish-Catholic, as I know the correct use of the word 'schnorer' (amongst others), I get a vote!

Speaking of Irish, 1228, it's "bejaysus" and you just made me feel very, very old. Your mother, indeed!

It's two of those words like channukah, chanukah, Hannukah, Hanukkah.
Couple of other sch phrases we grew up with too but won't mention here.

CD,
You forgot to mention plain old WTF.

"That's a good way to put your eye out."

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Originally posted by No one of consequence:
"That's a good way to put your eye out."

The old bb gun lecture! Welcome to the hsbbweb btw

John Cooper of Ohio State used to like to say "Dag Gummit."

Another familiar one is "Da-mn it to hell!"

"Don't come running to me with a broken leg."

"You wanna pick up your teeth with a broken arm?"

One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Can someone please explain to me exactly what the means?

My grandmother from Georgia used to say
" that apple didnt fall far from the peach tree"
Of course she was talking about my brother

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Originally posted by TPM:
One bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Can someone please explain to me exactly what the means?

It's better to have a small actual advantage than the chance of a greater one.

In other words, you're probably not going to be able to catch the two in the bush. So if you've got one in your hand, that's not too shabby!

My dad had (and still has) a few that stuck with me:

"Goin' to see a man about a horse"
"You look like those guys on Hee-Haw"
"Bed-time for Bonzo"

And I still don't know what any of them mean...

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Welcome to the HSBBW onWabana!

Can't remember if these were mentioned,
Y'all come back
Take a load off
I was so tired I had to dig a ditch ta drag my a$$ in
He was a right good feller
Old four eyes
Do THAT and your a$$ is grass!
Vas iss lohs?!- What's loose?
Vee hanks?- How's it hangin'?

My father's favorite when he heard excuses: "If the dog hadn't stopped to **** he would have caught the rabbit, too."

"You have two chances of getting your way, slim and none. And Slim just rode out of town.

Thought of a few more:

"It's colder than a well-digger's patute."
or
"It's hotter than a forest fire on the 4th of July."
"You're slower than molasses in the Klondike!"

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Here is one from my teenage years. We used to bale hay for a horse farm. Our employer was the man who drove the tractor and bailer and was well over 80 years old. One day, a teenage colleague of mine did something stupid (he lit a cigarette in the barn with all the hay) and he was caught doing it. The old man said "If I put your brains in the back of a knat's a$$, it would bounce around like a be-be in a box car."

"Crooked as a dog's hind leg"

"That face would make a freight train take a dirt road"

And my personal favorite: "He/she is so ugly, they'd give a buzzard lock-jaw"

"born on a merry go round"



"in like flynn"



"you couldn't hit sand if you fell of your camel"

another Bronx memory;

for an extremely cheap person who never chips in to pay:

'You're tighter than a crabs a**, and that's waterproof!" (we must have goten that one from some visiting Boston guy! )

"If ifs and buts was candy and nuts it'd be Christmas all year 'round!"

"If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, to _ _ _ _!"

When it's raining hard outside it's:
Raining so hard I had to jump into the river to keep from drownin.
or
Precipitating like a bovine creature urinating on a flat geological structure.

Get the lead out.
Unhook the trailer.
Its not Rocket Science.

Grandma's favorite, there's one or two things wrong with someone who don't mind their business, either they don't have a mind or they don't have any business, and in you r case I think it's both.

My ex-father in law had one...

"Wish in one hand and sh!t in the other and see which one fills up first!!"