Caught me another one on this board...

[Carolynn]

Whatsa matter? Cat got your tongue? (Why are you being so quiet and shy)

Been busier than two fleas on a dogs back! (two fleas attempting to establish a population on a new dog.)

I reckon his wood pile is shy a rick! (another comment on not being smart)

"Where was you goin' when I saw you goin' to town?" We was just goin' to town fer a spell. How cum you didn't go with us?" "Heck, I didn't even see ya 'till you was plumb outa sight!"

That boy's a steer waitin' to happen!!! (someone misbehaving with the opposite sex so frequently he should expect to be castrated by irate fathers).

He sleeps under the tree so much he's got a mouthful of bird manure!!
(lazy farmer).

When that boy's around not even the hens in the hen house is safe!!
(very randy individual)

[Curly(SO)]

Good going, girls

I like

Whew!!! That'll knock ya trotters!!!

form Carolynn, never heard that before!

And

"he's slower than a fart in a barrel of oil"

....DeeDee

[Jaye]

One of the local radio stations uses quotes from various TV shows/movies/cartoons as bumpers when they go to commercial. One of those is a Foghorn Leghorn line, and it always cracks me up for some reason.

"Nice girl, but she's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice."

[CJ]

Hi all,

These expressions are great. I find it intriguing that the "Cat got your tongue?" is familiar elsewhere but not used in exactly the same context. Here, we use it specifically when taunting someone who cannot guess the answer to a riddle or to a question. That's why it's used in the present tense ("Do you give the cat your tongue?").

Here are a few more Quebec French expressions:

-- "Will you give birth already so that we can get on with the baptism?" (Hurry up, dammit!)

-- "She's fondling her own butt." (She's lazy, shiftless.)

-- "He's got both eyes swimming in bean lard." (He's got this dreamy look in his eyes.)

-- "He's lost the North." (He panicked, he went crazy.)

-- "She's crazy like a broom." (She's overjoyed.)

-- "He got shoved up with a fir tree." (He was tricked; he was had.)

Unfortunately, a new word has recently entered Canadian English slang: the verb to tase (from the law enforcement implement, the taser). It leads to expressions such as:

-- "Man, you're tasing me, right?" (You're kidding me? You're trying to knock me out with that crap?)

-- "The sight totally tased him." (He was floored by the sight of it.)

Keep 'em coming, gals!

Love,
CJ

[TerriLynn]

Here's a couple from that wisest of 'Old Birds', Foghorn Leghorn (always good for bits of wisdon):

"I swear, that boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball."
"I say, that boy's about as bright as a burned out light bulb."

and others:

"Geezy, peezy, porky pies." (for sudden revelations. Said with a stiff lower jaw and only moving your lips.)

"I know you think you understood what you thought I said, but what you heard is not what I meant." (For employees that can't follow simple instructions.)

"Well butter my ears and bury me in an anthole." (surprise)

"It's rainin' as hard as a cow pi****g on a flat rock."

"Fast as a striped a** ape."

"Does a bear s**t in the woods?"--comeback "A bear s***s where ever it wants too."

Just a few I've heard over the years, many many more from when I was in the Army too colorful to print.

Terrilynn

[DonnaT]

S**t or get off the pot. (Hurry up, dammit!)

[DeeDee]

Gosh CJ, look what you started!!! This thread is "more fun than a barrel of monkeys". And back in grade school, a bra was called "an over the shoulder boulder holder"...bad, bad. Sadly without makeup (and body putty) I can look like "the south end of a north bound donkey". Enough for now, I have to drive back to work and I think I have "enough gas to drive a go-cart around the inside of a Cheerio". Remember "E" on the gas gauge doesn't stand for excellent
Hugs
DeeDee

[Roberta-Llyan]

I thought that "E" represented "EXTRA" gas in the trunk.

[Terri(SO)]

Yup, he's gotten a little too big for his britches! (think too much of himself)

[Kay]

Hi CJ

I was in the bathroom all on my jack combing my barnet the other day thinking about colloquialisms, after scratching my isa and cleaning my hampsteads, I came out and went down the apples, parked my bottle on the sofa, put my plates up and thought about what I could add to the thread. In no time at all my trouble came into the room and took a butchers at what I was doing. Her boat was a picture because I should have been out in the la-di, picking up my currant from the rub-a. I said let him stay there a bit longer, he was probably elephants anyway and I wasn’t having him being uncle all over my seats. Anyway a little alligator there I was driving down the frog and I saw him lying there in the bread., his skin sitting beside him, looking a bit Mozart herself.. What a pair, he had lost one of his daisies and her dog was lying there smashed on the pavement. I called out for them to get in the jam before a ginger saw them and stuck them in a flowery for the night.......

I could go on but you get the idea – don’t you?
Kay

[Roberta-Llyan]

"We're gonna be busier than a one armed paper hanger." Dolly Parton in STEEL MAGNOLIAS.

[Carolynn]

"Busier than a one legged man in an a-- kicking contest!!!!

"Madder than a wet hen".

I think my get up and go got up and went.

[CJ]

Wow, Kay. I'm reminded of the film The Limey with Terence Stamp. He has so much trouble making himself understood by his acquaintances in California because of this kind of slang. It's hilarious; he always has to explain to them what he's talking about. And, yes, I get the idea. Stop! Please stop!

Love,
CJ

[Lori A]

Hope you didn't wet your panties C J, I didn't think I was letting my alligator mouth over load my humming bird a** when I dropped those lines, but then my wives have always told me how I tend to hick out when I cross that Tennessee line.
I wish the weather would make up it's mind, here it is the middle of May and it's still colder than a Mother-in-law's kiss. Where is the global warming AL? That man is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
But it looks like what I got started has had you girls busier than a long-tailed cat at a rocking chair contest. Looks like some of yall didn't know whether to close one eye and fart or s#!+ and go blind. But then it's like Granny always says, 'There's more ways to kill a cat than by choking it to death on butter milk. But then again I've been told that if you were to put my brain in a thimble it would rattle like a B B in a bowling ball bag.
But I also know people who are so stupid they can't poor piss out of a boot with directions on the heel and a hole in the toe.

[DonnaT]

". . . beating a dead horse."