What you talkin' about?!

[Bighuey]

Heres one that is popular in Utah, Oh my Godfrey for OMG.

[Fran]

Heres one that is popular in Utah, Oh my Godfrey for OMG.

I love that one

[Bighuey]

A friend of mine used to say when he was going to work, "Ive got to go lead the kids across the swamp" I have no idea where he got that one.

[Fran]

My Dad used to tell us as kids to 'get up the wooden hill' ... upstairs to bed

[Bighuey]

My dad had some funny ones, too. A kid I went to high school with got some girl in the family way and he was crying the blues about he had to get a job,etc and my dad told him the screwing you get aint worth the screwing you get. He didnt use exactly those same words but you get the idea.

[Teesie]

My Papa says "going to see a man about a dog" but never used it when going to the bathroom, only when he was actually going somewhere. Another one he says sometimes when he's leaving and you ask him where he's going he'll say "Up a hog's ass to get a bucket of lard" LOL.... I love that one.

My Stepdad says he's going to "the gettin' place on got street" and if things ain't goin' so well he says "It'll all come out in the wash".

When my Grandma goes out to the garden to pick some vegetables she says she's going to "Pick a mess o' greens"

And around here sometimes when you go visitin somebody they'll say "Take your coat off and stay a while" or come on in and "set a spell"

Another one of my favorites is one my Great Granny Corn used to say. When it was raining and the sun was shinning at the same time she'd say "The Devil's beating his wife" then she'd say "Stick a pin in the ground, put your ear to it, and you can hear her scream" Us youngins were always to scared to try it.

[Maud Fitch]

Another one of my favorites is one my Great Granny Corn used to say. When it was raining and the sun was shinning at the same time she'd say "The Devil's beating his wife" then she'd say "Stick a pin in the ground, put your ear to it, and you can hear her scream" Us youngins were always to scared to try it.

Gosh, your Great Granny certainly had a good imagination!

A lot of early Australian colloquialisms evolved from Cockney rhyming slang like "going down the frog and toad" but it’s fading now. When paperwork was mislaid my boss used to say "You lot couldn’t find a piano in a one-roomed house".

[Bighuey]

I like that one about the bucket of lard, thats a good one. One that was used a lot in Washington state was, if you wanted to go to the beer joint was "Lets go get our snoots wet". One of my favorites is if someone complains about something, I tell them Lifes tough in the big city.

[Teesie]

LOL..... "a piano in a one roomed house" that's funny. It reminded me of a couple others.

I've always been bad about losing things or forgetting where I put them and Mama would always tell me "Girl, you'd lose your head if it wasn't screwed on!" lol.....

When you trying to hit something and missed it my brother would say "You couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a bass fiddle from two feet away!"

EDIT: Just remebered a coulple more. When kids in class were misbehaving my third grade teacher would tell them if they didn't stop she was "Gonna have a duck, chicken, goose fit" whatever that meant....lol...

And when I'm mad about someting I'll say that I'm "Mad as a wet hornet"

[Bighuey]

My dad used to say, "The best way to cut off a dog's tail is to lock him in the woodshed." It was years before I understood what it meant.

Edit.@teesie Its better to be pissed off than pissed on.

[Teesie]

^True, that!"

[Bighuey]

I used to hear a lot of crazy expressions when I was a Teamster but Ive forgotten most of them. Some of them were probably best forgotten, they were kind of raunchy. One I used to hear a lot, if someone asked or told someone to do something they didnt want to do, you would say, "Sure, Ill do it as soon as cows jump over the moon" I used to pull this one on my son-in-law. If he was doing something and ask me to give him a hand, Id say, sure one finger at a time.

[C0ldf1re]

My Dad used to tell us as kids to 'get up the wooden hill' ... upstairs to bed

In London, an old lady we know always says, "Up the apples and pears." Cockney rhyming slang for stairs.

[Bighuey]

A good place for strange definitions is Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary. Hes got a good one for a wife and also one for a husband but I dont remember them but one I do remember is his definition of a fork. An instrument for putting dead animals in your mouth.

[Teesie]

LMAOROTF!!!! I never heard of a fork described that way.

I know these two are probably used all over the world, but if somebody rarely did something you would say they do it "Once in a Blue Moon" And if you didn't expect a particular somebody would do something you'd say it would happen "As soon as Hell freezes over" or "As soon as we have snow in July"

If you ever heard Grandma say she was gonna go make some "Hickory Tea" it meant you'd best stop whatever you were doing real quick. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to sit down for a week.

My brother has a silly one he uses all the time. If you ask him to get you a drink, he'll ask if you want the cup with it. LOL!!!