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Twiddling your thumbs. How many more outdated expressions can you come up with??
dreher
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I haven't heard the expression "Twiddling your thumbs" in a real long time. About ten minutes ago I read "Twiddling my thumbs" in a book and remembered my grandfather, always bored if he wasn't working, sitting in his recliner "Twiddling his thumbs".
So how many other expressions no longer in use can all of you come up with.
Serious memory lane stuff.
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“An old wives’ tale”
”knee high to a grasshopper”
”cuter than a bug’s ear”
look up his number in phone book, or better yet call him from phone booth.......
what put the knot in your undies???????
cuttin the rug....
Runs like a raped ape
See here now!
Hard to tell not knowing
Don't make me stop this car!
I'll hit you so hard that when you come to, your clothes will be out of style!
Fiddle Sticks
Give me five
No rhyme nor reason
Let's do lunch
Go answer the phone (hanging on the wall in another room)
No bones about it
Ring around the collar
Step on a crack, break your mothers back
Please, please, don't be a litter bug cause every litter bit hoits (hurts)
Go ahead, knock it off, I dare ya
Proud to be an American
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I was watching a very old boxing video and the announcer said, "He hit him so hard he knocked him to the queer side of the street.". Never heard it before or since.
Eenie meany miney moe catch a..... never mind 😮
When its all said and done,there is usually more said than done.
my dad used to tell me i " wasted enough food to feed Coxeys army".
Use your head for something other than a hat rack.
Dumber than a bag of rocks.. slicker than snot on a door knob...fat people sweat...
Don't trip over what is behind you.
Check your oil for you?
"Give me $3.00 worth." "Regular or ethyl?"
"What you don't know won't hurt you."
???
About as long as Pat stayed in the army
fine as frog hair and not half as dusty
tighter than dicks hatband
"You don't have enough sense to pound sand in a rat hole"...(Usually preceded by boot to butt)...
Combat Vet VN
D.A.V Life Member
Up your nose with a rubber hose.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
You don’t know your butt from a hole in the ground.
Tighter than a bull’s * at fly time.
Colder than a well-digger’s *.
Watch your P’s and Q’s.
Hotter than a witch’s boob at Halloween.
If'in that don't take the rag of the bush.
Steep as a mules face
Quicker than an electric cat.
Can't carry a tune in a bucket.
Looks like two bobcats fighting in a sack.
Butt ugly.
Got to take a break, over loaded the noggin trying to remember.
Couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn even if inside it?
With all the doors and windows shut.
Drop a dime
Long distance operator, please
Pull the choke
A little dab'll do ya
LSMFT
Took him to the woodshed
Go ahead, it's your nickel
LSMFT, L ucky S tike M eans F ine T obacco
Or L oose S trap M eans F lopp *****
My dear departed Mother used to use this saying as not a derogatory nor racist statement but just to describe something very shinny. "Shinny as a n------ heal"
"Why Not?...It's a free country!"
it's not Gee Hawing
can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
Like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
Don’t throw the baby out with the dish water.
knee high to a grasshopper.
corn should be knee high by the forth of July.
Worthless as a football bat.
Worthless as teats on a boar.
If you had brains, you'd be dangerous
you sound like a broken record...
Teats on a boar hog might not be as useless a one thinks.
Neighbor was raised on a big hog farm in Iowa.
He said the boars with the most teats brought more money than those with less.
As it goes the boar determines the number of teats his sow offspring will have.
The more teats moma has the more piglets she can support.
Never raised hogs so your "mileage may vary".
I'll take your word for it..........
seal the deal with a handshake.......
family programming on TV.....
My mom used to say “I’m free, white, and 21, and I’ll do what I want!”
She was not a politically correct woman.
OK, OK, I know I said just one more but a post today reminded me of another oldie.
Do you want a badge or a chest to pin it on?
You got to get up purty early in the morning.......
to catch me peeking in your bedroom window!
Don
I bet not many have heard this one........................
when my Grandmother was frustrated or in a situation where a swear word would have been appropriate..........she used to say "FIDDLE-STICKS"
fiddle sticks ranks right up there with,,, Mumbly peg........and jack knife