Colloquialisms and their origins

[Caster]

Spelll chek is awtomatic on thid compwotir.

[Guest sL1k]

"So weak it couldn't pull a greasy string out of a cats a$%"

Speaking of witches mammary this is my fav variation

"It's colder than a witches ti##ie in a brass bra under the shady side of the bleachers"

And I'm sure most of you know this one

"Hotter than a 2 dollar pistol!"

[Oh Shoot]

"Grin like a mule eating briers."

"Rained like a cow pissing on a flat rock."

[Lumber_Jack]

"Rained like a cow pissing on a flat rock."

One of my favorites.

[Wingshooter]

If I misbehaved as a kid, I would hear my grandfather say "I'm gonna point you towards the North Star and dust your Southern Hemisphere!"

Edited August 12, 2012 by Batman

[Wingshooter]

"Rare as hen's teeth"

[Guest Lester Weevils]

"Weirder (or rarer, or more useless) than snake's suspenders"

"Useless as teats on a boar hog."

"That rain was a real toad strangler"

Edited August 12, 2012 by Lester Weevils

[RED333]

"Busier than a one legged Man in a butt kicking contest".

[Wingshooter]

TGO is the bee's knees

Edited August 12, 2012 by Batman

[Oh Shoot]

If I misbehaved as a kid, I would hear my grandfather say "I'm gonna point you towards the North Star and dust your Southern Hemisphere!"

Foreman on my first real job (I was 13) would say, "Boy, I'm gonna put a lump on your head so big you'll have to stand on tiptoe to rub it. "

TGO is the bee's knees

Boy, that goes back to the Flapper Era.

My grandfather's generation would say when something is good, "That's the berries". Like, "This fried chicken is really the berries."

- OS

[TN Outlaw]

"Slicker than Snot on a door nob"

"Useless as tits on a boar "

"Madder than a one legged waitress at the ihop"

"Makes me madder than a mosquito in a mannequin factory"

and a Famous one my Dad used to say "I could $h!T Through a screen door from 30 yards away"

[jtmaze]

There are so many.

Hotter than a wolf bitch in heat.

My personal favorite is "He's about half a bubble off of plumb."

JTM

Sent from my iPhone

[TMF]

Harder than woodpecker lips. (that is not a sexual reference, by the way)

[Guest FIST]

"Not the sharpest knife in the drawer"

"Not the fastest fish in the bowl"

My favorite but more of a term than a Colloquilism, when my kids ask for something they don't need my response is normally, "Well, TFB" for To Fing Bad. They know it means "no" but don't get the actuall acronym. It always makes the wife break a smile though

Edited August 12, 2012 by FIST