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Another gem from Granny...
On, erm, flatulance...(burping and the other)
"Better to let it out and bare the shame than to hold it in and bare the pain."
(and yes I use this all the time when I burp :laugh: :laugh: )
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"It's not bad manners...just good food"0 -
When something said was ignored it was "like water off a ducks back"0
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When someone I knew was hungover or feeling bad they'd say " I feel like I've been ate by a bear, and *kitten* off a cliff"!0
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Busier than a one-leggd man in an *kitten* kicking contest0
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When someone I knew was hungover or feeling bad they'd say " I feel like I've been ate by a bear, and *kitten* off a cliff"!
:noway: :noway: Now that is one I have never heard. :laugh:0 -
How about these?
Nervous as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.
Wound up like an $8 clock?0 -
When someone I knew was hungover or feeling bad they'd say " I feel like I've been ate by a bear, and *kitten* off a cliff"!
:noway: :noway: Now that is one I have never heard. :laugh:
:drinker:
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When someone I knew was hungover or feeling bad they'd say " I feel like I've been ate by a bear, and *kitten* off a cliff"!
:noway: :noway: Now that is one I have never heard. :laugh:
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:bigsmile:
:smooched:
Maybe, I have and I just don't remember. :drinker: :laugh: :laugh:0 -
Another gem from Granny...
On, erm, flatulance...(burping and the other)
"Better to let it out and bare the shame than to hold it in and bare the pain."
(and yes I use this all the time when I burp :laugh: :laugh: )
Or
"It's not bad manners...just good food"
Regarding the other, my mom used to say "There's more room on the outside than there is on the inside".0 -
Hey. I'm from Maine. My mother always told me to go play in the door yard and then got mad at me because I didn't know where the hell it was! Anybody else out there from Maine that can direct me to it? It's not to late to find it is it?????0
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Hey. I'm from Maine. My mother always told me to go play in the door yard and then got mad at me because I didn't know where the hell it was! Anybody else out there from Maine that can direct me to it? It's not to late to find it is it?????
That's a new one on me. Never heard of a door yard. :ohwell:0 -
How about, "more busy than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest!"
I always heard "busier than a one armed paperhanger".0 -
Back to the sayings topic....my grandma had the best saying when someone ticked her off. "Go *kitten* in a hat and pull it over your ears" I crack up every time I picture this.
I`ve heard *kitten* in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up first.
Dang, You can't get more pessimistic than that.0 -
As kids, my older brother used to tell us "go play in the street"..........
Now I tell him " You could hide your own Easter Eggs"......................... (KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!)0 -
Hey. I'm from Maine. My mother always told me to go play in the door yard and then got mad at me because I didn't know where the hell it was! Anybody else out there from Maine that can direct me to it? It's not to late to find it is it?????
door·yard (dôryärd, dr-)
n.
The yard in front of the door of a house.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.0 -
door·yard (dôryärd, dr-)
n.
The yard in front of the door of a house.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Well that was too damn easy wasn't it! I don't recall having a yard with a door. Driveway then yard....I guess that'll do!0 -
door·yard (dôryärd, dr-)
n.
The yard in front of the door of a house.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Well that was too damn easy wasn't it! I don't recall having a yard with a door. Driveway then yard....I guess that'll do!0 -
How about cold molasses going uphill?0
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As in, he was slower than cold molasses running uphill0
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door·yard (dôryärd, dr-)
n.
The yard in front of the door of a house.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Well that was too damn easy wasn't it! I don't recall having a yard with a door. Driveway then yard....I guess that'll do!
Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d
from http://www.dooryard.ca/index0.html
dooryard \'dor-yard\ n - The exterior area of a home surrounding the most commonly used entryway, typically the driveway area; "Buddy does a good job of plowin' out th' dooryard." A logical extension of "barnyard," "back yard" and "front yard," it is likely that this compound word grew out of a necessity to distinguish working areas from living areas. In a practice common to the region, homes were attached to barns and other out-buildings; dooryard identifies the exterior area of a home not given over to farming. A household word in the County, dooryard is seldom heard elsewhere. NEXT»0
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