idioms - id·i·om /ˈɪdiəm/ [id-ee-uhm]

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Gator & H (GA)

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By challenge of Sarah, I'm starting an idiom sharing topic. Evidently Sarah and I have a like for the 'southern' type, but all idioms are welcome. We might need to sanitize some - but that should be OK.

I'll start off with a few:
"root hog or die poor" - [look out for yourself as no one's going to do it for you]
"A dewdrop's chance in hell"
"Sweatin' like a ***** in church"

(if anyone has issue with any I come up with please let me know and I'll modify)
 
May not seem like much and I'm not sure if the connotation is the same in other parts, but down here when you say "Oh bless his heart" it's usually because said person has just shown a bit of the idiot streak. I'm sure more will come to me as the day progresses.
 
The animal series:
"Sometimes you get the chicken and sometimes you just get feathers"
"feeding corn to a dead rooster"
"Chickens coming home to roost"
"A hen in the chicken house"
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
"you better lick that calf over again"
"Cows don't give milk"
"Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then"
"high as cats backs"
"Hog heaven"
"don't let your humming bird ass get ahead of your alligator head"
"makes about as much sense as tits on a boar"
"Dumber than owl poop"
"Can't change a leopard spots to stripes"
 
Gator, that is an impressive list!! :mrgreen:

I will modify some of these, but I'm sure y'all can come up with their true words if you want to. ;-) (*=modified)

Hotter'n two rats screwin'* in a wool sock.
Hotter'n a June bride in a feather-tick mattress.
Busier'n a one-armed paper hanger.
Busier'n a three-legged cat with diarrhea on a marble floor.
Lost like a ball in tall weeds.
It's rainin' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock.
Slicker'n owl snot through a tin horn.
Slicker'n goose poop* through a tin horn.
He's so stupid he couldn't pour water from a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.
She's so stupid she can't tell the difference between s*** and shineola.
 
"Don't pee on my leg and tell me its raining"
"Like a duck to water"
"Happy as a pig in slop"
"Its colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra"
"One french fry short of a happy meal"
"My grandma was slow, but she was old!"
"Slow as molasses in January"
"Kiss my foot"
"Dead as a door nail"
"Dumb as a bag of rocks"
 
For all us crazy cat people:

Letting the cat out of the bag
Hotter than a cat on a tin roof
When the cat's away, the mice will play
Cat nap
Fat cat
Cat burglar
Look what the cat dragged in
Curiosity killed the cat
Raining cats and dogs
Cat got your tongue
There's more than one way to skin a cat


Then there's some of my fave ways to call someone stupid:

The elevator doesn't reach the top floor
One card short of a full deck
One brick short of a full load
The light is on, but nobody's home
 
Oh yeah, and a few of my favorites:

Going postal
Pushing up daisies
Kicking the bucket
Wigging out
Having a cow
High as a kite
Close but no cigar
Three sheets to the wind
Blow smoke up your arse
She fell out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch on the way down
Blowing off steam
 
I love it! The cat ones are particularly apropos. You guys [gals] have come up with some really goodies.

OK here's some more-

One more animal one:
bat *poop* crazy

Others:
"I tell you what..." [I hear this prefaces much in southern speak]
"You'd probably complain if you were hung with a new rope."
"goin' to a strip club on Valentines day"
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
"The pot calling the kettle black"
"When all you got is a hammer, everything looks like nails"
"The only secret is one you never tell"
"A penny saved is a penny earned"
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
"Slower than molasses in January"
"Slippier than snot"
"Colder than a *****'s heart"
"Like a one legged man in a ass kicking contest"
 
Gator--

I cant believe I forgot about bat s@#t crazy--we use it in this house all the time!!

here's one from my DBIL when he asked my DSIL out for the first time (he's from Tallahassee):

I'm gonna carry you out for some vittles. (gonna take you out for dinner)

I'm 'not firing on all cylinders' this morn, so cant think of any others right now, but what a list we are compiling!!

eta
just remembered another fave;
Busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
 
need to pee like a Russian race horse
doesn't mash my potatoes
like the southern end of a north bound horse
couldn't hit the broad side of a barn
nuttier than a squirrel turd
two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do
do chicken have teeth?


And, my favorite Irish idiom - He has a queer, soft hand under a duck. (He is gentle).
 
This is fun!

where the sun don't shine
got a corn cob up her butt
wish I had a swing like that on my back porch
like a duck on a june bug
in the weeds
out in the sticks (or boonies)
don't rain on my parade
makes her own clothes
all that and a bag of chips
two left feet
penny pincher
in a coon's age
blind as a bat
don't have kittens!
underwear in a bunch
Africa hot
 
Hard to stop once I get started:

lend a hand
bury the hatchet
in hot water (I told this to DS once, and he thought I was going to give him a bath)
in over your head
 
oh no, it won't stop!

rattle (or yank) your chain
push your buttons (that's another one not to use around small children, they will argue with you for hours about not having buttons, only a zipper)
panties in a knot
 
You guys & gals are hilarious. I've heard many of these, but some are totally new! Now that the list is so long, I don't see how I can think of any to add. But I'll try.
 
"doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground"
"who peed in your wheeties?"
"panties in a bunch"
"panties in a wad"
"not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree"
"I need ________ like I need another hole in my head"
 
Karen & Angus(GA) said:
Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit
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Love it! Gonna have to remember to use that one!


As water tight as a frog's arse
Takes to ____ like a duck in water
Happy as a clam
High as a kite

80' reference anyone---
Gag me with a spoon

This one is lewd, so I'll remove it if anyone wants:
Does the carpet match the drapes?
 
Sarah and Buzz said:
More excited than a mosquito in a nudist camp.
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<Snort> That was funny. Laugh out loud and shoot milk through your nose kinda funny.

Did anyone already post: Like water off a ducks back
 
"not a snowball's chance in hell"
"if you are not the lead dog, the view never changes"
"wolf in sheep's clothing"
"two shakes of a lamb's tail"
"bleeds like a stuck pig"
 
Went to my kids "OE Expo" last night where some of their work in the gifted program was displayed. One of the projects displayed was illustrating an idiom. So here are a few more for the animal theme:

you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink
hungry enough to eat a horse
sick as a dog
stubborn as a mule
 
It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here
as easy as herding cats
don't hold a lit match behind the powder keg
yeah, sure, you betcha
chew the fat
shoot the breeze
that will put hair on your chest
born with a silver spoon in his mouth
don't have kittens over it

And then, all of the vomit ones:
blow chunks
feed the fish
bark at the ants
paint the walls
launch lunch
bow down to the porcelain god
toss a sidewalk pizza
whistling beef
yodeling groceries
 
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