Your Favorite Colloquialisms? (page 2)

Phantom Stranger

I kinda like "he's really shot-in-the-head". When I asked for an explanation, ...nah, this is a family board. :)

Back about 15 years or so, a guy who wrote a newspaper column on colloquialisms told of hearing the term "fade barn" somewhere in the corn belt. He called in several connections attempting to learn what the term meant and what was its origin, but no one was familiar with it. Finally he put the question to his readers in the column, "Has anyone heard the term 'fade barn' and if so, can you tell us what it means?"

A couple of months went by with no response, and he repeated his request for the definition of "fade barn".

Finally he received an email from the Kansas-Missouri area which explained, "A fade barn is the place wher you store the fade for your caows."

little witch

"Let's throw it up in the dust and let the rain settle it" (when two folks cannot agree)

"Were off! Like a herd of turtles"

"He is as dumb as a bag of hammers"

When a baby has a dirty diaper, he has "made mud"

A very hard rain is known as a "toad strangler"

"Cute as a pup in a little red wagon"

and my husbands favorite, "Shiny as a pee-dawber in a mudhole" (((don't ask, I dont know either))

teejay

"feelin' lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut" -- Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies

Frannie Banannie

LOL@Yeru! When something to eat is REALLY good, we say "It'll make ya wanna slap yer mama!"

I kinda like "he's really shot-in-the-head". When I asked for an explanation, ...nah, this is a family board. :)

Phantom, that's a cliffhanger.....not allowed....I hafta know

LOL@COMF! I figured it out just before I got to the part where he put the question to his readers....GOOD one!

LOL@Little Witch! I hadn't heard some of those....that "toad strangler" had me cackling.....I think the "pee-dawber" must refer to shiny bubbles like the ones in a......um.....chamber pot....when ya take a leak.....spose someone took a leak in a mudhole somewhere and decided to use the shiny bubbles created for their comparative value...

Frannie B

Surreptitious

It's my guess that a pee-dawber is akin to a mud-dawber. A type of wasp indigenous to the south that does indeed make it's "nest" out of mud.

A couple of my favorites"

"That makes the cheese more binding" and

"Slicker than deer guts on a porcelain doorknob"

Syrup

Frannie Banannie

It's my guess that a pee-dawber is akin to a mud-dawber. A type of wasp indigenous to the south that does indeed make it's "nest" out of mud.

LOL@Syrup! I guess yer prolly right...my faux pas... ;>

"Slicker than deer guts on a porcelain doorknob"

ewwwww, Syrup.....thank you for sharing that....(gags at visual)

Frannie B

little witch

Surreptitious is correct. It is a shiny wasp, that makes its nest from mud!

Frannie, since you gave it a gallant effort, I will use your explaination for a new saying.

"HAPPY AS A BUBBLE IN A CHAMBERPOT"!!!

LOL. It is sure to catch on!

Frannie Banannie

since you gave it a gallant effort, I will use your explaination for a new saying.
"HAPPY AS A BUBBLE IN A CHAMBERPOT"!!! LOL. It is sure to catch on!

LOL@Little Witch! (I'm an author! I'm an author!..does happy dance)...

Actually, my Mom (a truly feisty, blue-eyed redhead shortie) used to refer to my youngest son's eyes as looking like "two bubbles in a pi**pot"...lol....prolly because his eyes were BIG and shiney... ;)

Frannie B

wednesday

this is really old, may dad (who would be in his 80's but is deceased) used to say

you couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the side.

You don't know your arse from a hole in the ground.

You do not know sh*t from shinola.

he was an abusive person.

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