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What are your favorite (or least favorite), old fashioned expressions?
Example: Cute as a button 
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One used here in the South alot....
"Bless her/his heart...." Sounds nice right? Not really...say a guy is trying to use a phillips head screwdriver on a straight head screw....An older Southern Belle may shake her head and say "Bless his heart...." and she really means 'Damn he's dumb" 
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One used here in the South alot.... "Bless her/his heart...." Sounds nice right? Not really...say a guy is trying to use a phillips head screwdriver on a straight head screw....An older Southern Belle may shake her head and say "Bless his heart...." and she really means 'Damn he's dumb"
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The apples don't fall far from the tree...
Because; The older I get the lower the apples.. Just sayin' |
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last week doing Grandma duty and babsitting my one year old grandson
15 year old son is in living room playing Playstation and getting mad at his game ...pretty soon I hear a curse word slip out I holler from the kitchen " little pitchers have big ears ya know" then had to explain to him what that meant 
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What are your favorite (or least favorite), old fashioned expressions? Example: Cute as a button
Yeah, that one always cracks me up. Who wants to have sex with a button? I can't think of any in particular this second. But my love of things historical, cause me to really enjoy some of the older ones which use references that are meaningless in modern times, just because they DO have those references in them. Like "don't put the cart before the horse." Almost no one uses horse drawn carts any more, and almost no one uses the word "before" to mean "in front of." So using such phrases, is a similar bit of fun, to using an antique but still useful tool or piece of clothing. I don't want to sidetrack this thread into politics, so I'll just mention that there are plenty of old "wise sayings" which aren't really "wise" at all, and which grind me every time someone quotes them. |
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
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A Chip off the Old Block!
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
Especially for English majors. Was "two" referring back to the bird, or the hand? |
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
And a few more when you add "But a push in the bush is worth two in the hand"
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My dad's favorite, "Don't take any wooden nickels". My favorite is " Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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....that's when the Fertilizer hits the Ventilator!
Usually expressed a bit more crude,but since this site is PG-13,well,this has to do!
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God made Ugly,but He didn't like it!
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Heres one that goes well in these forums...
"Dont piss down my leg and tell me its raining...." |
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Heres one that goes well in these forums... "Dont piss down my leg and tell me its raining...." quite a lot of that going on lately!
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
" killing two birds with one stone.." I think will raise not only eyebrows...but tempers too...lol.. |
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" a lousy carpenter always blames his tools"
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Edited by
TMommy
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Sun 03/20/16 05:46 PM
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" a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is always one that raises a few eyebrows
Especially for English majors. Was "two" referring back to the bird, or the hand? who wants a bird in the hand anyhow? a stitch in time saves nine an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of manure you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar |
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