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This may have been done/belong somewhere else, so Mods please feel free to move if appropriate, but just wodnered if people are still struck, as I am by expressions or idioms they haven't heard beofre but which just strike them as great.

Read one this morning, as it happens in a SK book, but of course they come from many sources.

Anyway this morning's was:

As tough as a boiled owl.....
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Just dying to drop that into a conversation now. :)
 
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Patricia A

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Thank you Owenk for posting this wonderful thread!

One of my favorites, it expresses a sense of futility is,
sh!t and fall back in it.
This one that expresses being very busy, or very angry, also involves #2 ,
I just about sh!t circles (or rings) around myself.
One that involves owl excrement, that expresses slyness or slipperiness is,
slicker that owl sh!t on a wet road. One could say, slicker than snot on a doorknob, as well to describe the same situation.
 
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I'm full of old sayings, but they're new to my husband. We are the same age, but I feel about three decades older most of the time. Some favorites that I actually use:

"You lie like a sacka mud!"

"I gotta pee so bad my teeth'r floatin!"

"Build a bridge and get over it."

"Crazier than a pet coon." (meaning raccoon, ok)

"Fly by the seata yer pants"

"Oh, foozeball!"

"Cuttin up dickens."

"Cattywompus"

"Bob-wire fence"


I'll stop now. :biggrin2:
 
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Patricia A said:
Thank you Owenk for posting this wonderful thread!

One of my favorites, it expresses a sense of futility is,
sh!t and fall back in it.
This one that expresses being very busy, or very angry, also involves #2 ,
I just about sh!t circles (or rings) around myself.
One that involves owl excrement, that expresses slyness or slipperiness is,
slicker that owl sh!t on a wet road. One could say, slicker than snot on a doorknob, as well to describe the same situation.
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You made me think of another one! "Slicker'n fried snot". Used to describe a really nasty texture or food item.
 
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I have a "PMS" necklace that has a metal tag with,"Go take a flying #%^* at a rolling donut" stamped on it.I would never say that to anyone (well.......) but when someone is working my last nerve I find it turns my irritation to laughter when I think about what is around my neck.
 
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no bounce no play said:
I've heard this one a few times recently but I'm not sure what it means lol.

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.
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Just guessing that it's a more colorful way of saying, "Ki$$ my a$$."

My dad used to say, when his driving was criticized, "Please note the mistletoe on the driver's coattail."

I remember a George Will column where he quoted someone else, can't remember who, writing, "He had a mouth like a mail slot." Love that one. In one of my stories, I have a character describing his great-aunt as, "She had a face like a clenched fist," but it's not the same.
 
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Patricia A said:
Thank you Owenk for posting this wonderful thread!

One of my favorites, it expresses a sense of futility is,
sh!t and fall back in it.
This one that expresses being very busy, or very angry, also involves #2 ,
I just about sh!t circles (or rings) around myself.
One that involves owl excrement, that expresses slyness or slipperiness is,
slicker that owl sh!t on a wet road. One could say, slicker than snot on a doorknob, as well to describe the same situation.
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I am guessing you would like the expression my garndmother used to use if someone asked her to do soemthing when she was already occupied with a task:

 
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