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| miss wilma |
Posted - Feb 02 2008 : 1:04:30 PM
What is your favorite old timey saying, and what do you think it meant
Farm Girl #96
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| chessie |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 09:40:27 AM
i just heard a new one and RAn to 'puter to add this to the fun. My carpenter just said to me...
"if Ifs and Buts were candies and nuts, we would all have a Merry Christmas"
wow! I have a philosopher carpenter
love, karen
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happy farmgirl #89 |
| miss wilma |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 07:01:36 AM
Thats a good one Alee how about doing a post on manners
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| Alee |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 06:37:32 AM
How about:
Manners are always in style
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Annika |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 06:07:27 AM
"Pretty is as pretty does" my favourite one still. My granny and grandma and great aunt would always say this and it is still true today. It doesn't matter how pretty you look, if you are a nasty person. Grace and kindness will be long remembered when a pretty face is not always so, I think is what they meant. Of course I was a hot tempered little shrew and didn't listen at the time LOL!
Annika
Farmgirl sister #13
Mud Hen Queen
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 08 2008 : 05:26:58 AM
I am so mad I could "chew nails"
she looks like she could "chew nails"
meaning very angry OR very tough character
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 10:59:24 AM
boy I am full of them today....LOL
"you get more with sugar than you do with vinegar" meaning you get more by being nice than by not being nice to people
"the squeeky wheel gets the grease" means if you make enough noise you'll get what you need or want
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 10:53:14 AM
got a couple more:
"he/she is a tough nut to crack" meaning a person hard to "get to" or to understand
one of my favorite is:
"take the cotton out of your ears and put it in your mouth"
it means quit talking and start listening!
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| miss wilma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 08:55:47 AM
Girls How I wish I had all thesr down what fun
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| chessie |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 08:49:08 AM
i am not a vermin expert but last year i was walking on the lawn at a historic park here in town with some of my cousins and if one of them hadn't spied the snake in the grass in front of me i would have stepped on a baby rattler and might not be talking to you now. baby rattlers have no rattles yet and so, although this one was coiled and trying to warn us, no sound was coming out. Also, the babies have no control of how much venom to discharge and, i'm told, they release it all. It is bad enough to be struck by rattlesnake but, apparently, it is worse if it is a baby. Of course, I was wearing flipflops and not boots or even shoes. Let me tell you, from a few steps back, the snake was completely hidden by the grass, so to me "snake in the grass" means hidden danger close by.
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| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 08:01:01 AM
"sweep it under the rug" meaning hide it...something someone did that was shameful or bad
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 07:49:02 AM
I came up with 17!
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 07:47:20 AM
a couple more:
"fish or cut bait" means do something, don't just sit there
"poop or get off the pot" meaning get it done or get out of the way
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 07:43:48 AM
can I tell ya more? LOL ! maybe give ya a nice laugh
my very favorites are:
"Shut the door! we're you raised in a barn?"
"Shut the door! you're not in jail where they shut them for ya!"
"Sly as a fox" meaning sly
"...as a snake in the grass" I think it means devious, or hidden evil
does anyone know exactly what "snake in the grass" means??
"multiply like a rabbit" meaning become more and more
"The rabbit died" meaning you are pregnant, it is said that a pregnancy test was your blood was given to a rabbit and if it died then the result was positive
I also was told by my mother and now tell my son
"I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck"
I don't know if farmers still measure in pecks but it was larger than a bushel but smaller than 2 bushels
"Dumber than a box of rocks" means stupid or dumb
"older than dirt" meaning a person's age was old
"just a spring chicken" meaning very young adult person
"she's just a spring chicken" "you are just a spring chicken"
a chicken just born this spring would be young
"sharp as a tack" meaning very smart
"don't run with scissors because you'll poke your eye out"
same as "don't run with a stick (or a pencil), you'lll poke an eye out"
"Don't get your panties in a bunch" meaning getting upset or angry
how's that for more! anyone enjoy them?
LOL I did, nice childhood memorys aren't they?
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See what ya gals have done to me! I am not doing housework but having fun with these now"
"Crazier than a bunch of loons" means a loon acts wierd
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 07:25:23 AM
"She's built like a brickhouse" meaning she has a good figure
"He's wearing his high water pants" meaning the legs are short
"Acting like a chicken with it's head cut off" meaning running around confused...I heard that a chicken with his head just cut off would run around for a little while acting confused
"hotter than a firecracker" meaning the weather or something is temperature hot
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| yarnmamma |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 07:15:36 AM
I have a couple that I didn't see yet! lemme thing for a minute.
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May we always be in thankful contemplation of God who presides over us all.
Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
farmgirl #71 Linda in PA |
| createmyworld |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 06:14:37 AM
This was fun. Thanks Miss Wilma for starting it! |
| Alee |
Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 03:50:21 AM
Congrats Sissy!!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| sissysquilts |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 6:35:32 PM
OHMYGOSH!!!! Bless you GOOD Miss Wilma!!! Sending my address now :)
*~* Sissy*~*
Farmgirl Sister #117
"The good stars met in your horoscope. Made you of spirit,fire and dew"
Robert Browning |
| miss wilma |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 6:08:01 PM
This has been awesome fun , I am still waiting to hear from sissyquilts, I am glad I did it by number could never have done it by funniest since they were all so good. Thanks girls
Farm Girl #96
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| kydeere40744 |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 5:50:35 PM
Wow - we are close to 100 quotes!!! Here they are...
Here is a list of the sayings so far....keep em coming!
1: Some food or meal would "stick to your ribs" (Lisamarie)
2: Good garden peas! (peanut)
3: We always said someone was "dyed in the wool"...such as "He's a dyed in the wool Republican/Democrat" (abbasgirl)
4: Something crooked or off center was "Kattywhompus" (abbasgirl)
5: Her lips are redder than a possum's butt in pokeberry season! (farmgirl blessings)
6: Tough titty said the kitty but the milk sure was good. (windypines)
7: Palm of your hand itches, going to get money. (ronna)
8: If you sleep with dogs and you may wake up with fleas. (downbranchroad)
9: Youngin your head looks like a stump full of granddaddy's (downbranchroad)
10: When us kids were getting wild my papa would call us all "knotheads." (barefootgoatgirl)
11: Slicker than snot on a doorknob! (plumcreekmama)
12: Someone that is a little kooky is "a bubble off plumb" (nubidiane)
13: Dog-and-a-half-long-and-half-a-dog-high (jessiemae)
14: It'll feel better once it quits hurting. (jessiemae)
15: It slicker than a hog on ice out there. (jpbluesky)
16: Go blow the stink off of ya. (bohemiangel)
17: Lord willing and the crick don't rise. (bohemiangel)
18: You can wish in one hand and poop in the other and see which one you get first. (peanut)
19: Poop on me once you won't poop on me again. (bohemiangel)
20: You know the devil you got ! You don't know the devil you could get!!!!! (mima)
21: Now that's what really melts my butter! (sissysquilts)
22: that is "slap-your-grandma" funny (country lawyer)
23: use your head for more than just a hat rest! (kygurlsrbest)
24: .... like water off a ducks back...(kygurlsrbest)
25: busier than a hound-dog with fleas (kygurlsrbest)
26: like a duck on a junebug. (kygurlsrbest)
27: I'll be on you like white on rice. (junkjunkie)
28: Get outdoors and get the stink blown off ya! (kygurlsrbest)
29: Eat those carrots, they'll make you see in the dark! (kygurlsrbest)
30: Dumb as a bag of hammers (aunt jenny)
31: Fine as a frog hair split four ways! (farmgirl blessings)
32: someone saying I want this...and if it was not likely to happen, my mom would say "And folks in hell want ice water, too!" (jpbluesky)
33: "Get out of emotion and into motion." (libbie)
34: What you think of me is none of my business! (libbie)
35: Ooooh! I'm SOOOO MAD I COULD SPIT!!!!" (kygurlsrbest)
36: "He's meaner than cat poop." (luzy)
37: "He just pooped in his nest!" (luzy)
38: *my hubby refers to water as "nature's greatest solvent" and says "if you're not bleeding, you are not working" whenever i start to bleed... (chessie)
39: not the sharpest tool in the garden shed (chessie)
40: I'm so mad i could stomp bunnies! (chessie)
41: Why, honey,I hardly recognized you - if I had seen you on the street, I would have passed you like a freight train passing a bum! (jpblueskey)
42: Bless her heart (peanut)
43: Is a frog's arse water tight? (chessie)
44: Is the Pope catholic? (chessie)
45: Does a bear poop in the woods? (peanut)
46: good granny (peggysue)
47: My hubby said, I am finer than frog hair. (debinmtns)
48: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. (debinmtns)
49: colder than a step mother kiss (debinmtns)
50: raining harder like a cow peeing on a flat rock (debinmtns)
51: Were you born in the basement, and never brought up? (kissmekate)
52: He is so crooked, when he dies, they will have to screw him into the ground. (kissmekate)
53: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (sleepless reader)
54: Save your pennies and the dollars will follow. (La Patite Ferme)
55: You make a better door than a window (Amie C.)
56: Useless as teats on a bull..(Alee)
57: If the good Lords willin' and the creek don't rise..(Alee)
58: Went thru it like corn thru a goose..(Alee)
59: Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs (Alee)
60: No good deed goes unpunished..(Alee)
61: more colors than a rodeo clown (Alee)
62: If it ain't broke..don't fix it (Alee)
63: Too wet to plow, and too hot to fish..(Alee)
64: Naked as a Jaybird..(Alee)
65: Squeakin' like a Sears saddle (Alee)
66: Mule headed..(Alee)
67: He couldn't hit the side of a barn if he was inside ! (Alee)
68: There's a ten gallon hat on a two gallon head (Alee)
69: Busier than a one legged man in a buttkickin contest (firemama)
70: Busier than a one armed paper hanger (firemama)
71: Well, you gotta strike while the iron is hot! (22shortie)
72: Root hog or lose your tater. (Phils Ann)
73: I'll just put on my big girl panties and deal with it. (Lainey)
74: Nothing to do, but to do it. (Lainey)
75: Up @#$% creek without a paddle. (createmyworld)
76: Do as I say, not as I do. (createmyworld)
77: It's colder than a witch's tit. (createmyworld)
78: You rode the short bus to school didn't you? (createmyworld)
79: When they said they were handin' out brains in heaven, you got in the line that said trains. (createmyworld)
80: He's nuttier than a squirell turd. (createmyworld)
81: You're slower than molasses in January. (createmyworld)
82: There's more than one way to skin a cat. (kygurlsrbest)
83: (He, She, I) just think (she, he, I) hung the moon (kygurlsrbest)
84: You must think I came down with yesterday's rain (kygurlsrbest)
85: "He/she looked like death sucking on a lifesaver!" (kissmekate)
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Farmgirl Sisterhood #137
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
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| kissmekate |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 2:25:11 PM
My friend Jack used to say:
"He/she looked like death sucking on a lifesaver!"
It meant that you didn't look so hot lately, or had been ill and needed to go home and get into bed.
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
| miss wilma |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 1:59:45 PM
Libbie I was getting worried, I emailed you for an address
Farm Girl #96
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| Libbie |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 12:30:22 PM
I can't believe I won the drawing!!! I've been up in the "big city" for the last few days due to some medical weirdness - I'm okay, but just needed some tests to confirm that! WOW - what a wonderful thing to come home to after a couple of "draggy" days. You all are SO amazing, and I am in shock - it seems like I never win anything, and the timing of this one couldn't be better! I wish you could all see my smile right now.....
XOXO, Libbie
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 06:03:05 AM
Did anyone already say, "there's more than one way to skin a cat."? That's one I use everyday, and I also forgot my husband's personal favorite, "(He, She, I) just think (she, he, I) hung the moon" whe and when he's fibbed about the garbage, "you must think I came down with yesterday's rain!"
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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| createmyworld |
Posted - Feb 06 2008 : 05:59:37 AM
Here's a few more that my parents and some of my friends used to say:
Up @#$% creek without a paddle.
Do as I say, not as I do.
It's colder than a witch's tit.
You rode the short bus to school didn't you? (meaning you're not too bright)
When they said they were handin' out brains in heaven, you got in the line that said trains.
He's nuttier than a squirell turd.
You're slower than molasses in January.
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