Favorite quirky sayings

[bee*]

oh yeah another one that my sister keeps saying

deadly buzz-meaning really cool. So if she likes something it''s a deadly buzz.

 

[Dandi]

Alot of aussies, particularly blokes often use the phrase "it''s the duck''s guts", when describing something they really like, or is the best of its kind, i.e "wow I LOVE your diamond ring, it''s the duck''s guts!!" Kind of the like "the cat''s pyjamas".

OK, not a great example, but you get the idea

It''s a phrase that makes me laugh every time I hear it!

 

[zoebartlett]

Date: 4/19/2008 8:33:49 PM
Author: sera
Oh yeah, when FI takes to long to press on the gas when the light turns green I tell him, ''It won''t get any greener.'' He says I''m impatient...

...only when he''s slow.

I like that!

 

[sera]

Date: 4/20/2008 7:59:48 AM
Author: ZoeBartlett

Date: 4/19/2008 8:33:49 PM
Author: sera
Oh yeah, when FI takes to long to press on the gas when the light turns green I tell him, ''It won''t get any greener.'' He says I''m impatient...

...only when he''s slow.

I like that!

Glad someone does... he''s not too fond of it.

 

[sera]

Date: 4/20/2008 5:55:46 AM
Author: bee*
thought of another one-

nifty-meaning quickly.

in a jiffy means in a minute (I''ll be with you in a jiffy).

I''ve heard nifty being used like nice... older folks use it like they would swell (That''s a nifty suit. You look swell)... most often I hear it used sarcastically in conjuction with an eyeroll (e.g. Gee, that''s nifty.

).

 

[bee*]

Date: 4/20/2008 4:24:11 PM
Author: sera

Date: 4/20/2008 5:55:46 AM

Author: bee*

thought of another one-


nifty-meaning quickly.


in a jiffy means in a minute (I''ll be with you in a jiffy).

I''ve heard nifty being used like nice... older folks use it like they would swell (That''s a nifty suit. You look swell)... most often I hear it used sarcastically in conjuction with an eyeroll (e.g. Gee, that''s nifty.

).

Really? That''s funny that the same word has so many different meanings. My mother always says she''ll get something nifty.

 

[BigDiamonds]

Oh this is fun!

FI always says "what does that have to do with the price of (something random) in (someplace random)?", as in "What does that have to do with the price of oranges in Nepal?" It''s his way of saying, "what you just said is completely irrelevant to the current conversation."

And of course, one we stole from Scrubs that always makes me laugh: "There''ll be banana hammocks everywhere!" JD says it after one of his little space-out daydreams, so we use it whenever there has been a weird pause after someone said something pretty mundane. Like -
"Want to go out for dinner?"
(long pause)
"There''ll be banana hammocks everywhere!"
It makes no sense at all, which is part of why its funny.

 

[BigDiamonds]

Date: 4/19/2008 8:20:06 PM
Author: miraclesrule
Since I am an impatient person, my personal favorites are:

''Ta,ta,ta, Today Junior!!''

or...

''I can''t believe that out of two million sperm, YOU were the quickest!!''

LOVE that. lol. Classic movie.

 

[LittleRock]

My kids are tired of hearing me say;

I may have been born at night, but it wasn''t LAST NIGHT!!!

When we don''t know the answer to something we say "Go ask Ms. Emily" It''s from a Barbara Streisand movie. For the longest time the kids would be like who''s Ms. Emily? But it''s code for DH and I and means pretty much "How the h**l would I know?" bad right?

 

[diamondfan]

I also like, "She thinks she is all that and a bag of chips!" Not too sure what it really means but I use it as She thinks she is too cool for school or got it all going on!

 

[miraclesrule]

Date: 4/20/2008 10:15:26 PM
Author: LittleRock
My kids are tired of hearing me say;

I may have been born at night, but it wasn''t LAST NIGHT!!!

When we don''t know the answer to something we say ''Go ask Ms. Emily'' It''s from a Barbara Streisand movie. For the longest time the kids would be like who''s Ms. Emily? But it''s code for DH and I and means pretty much ''How the h**l would I know?'' bad right?

Isn''t it funny when your kids look at you like your nutso? It cracks me up.
Whenever my daughter would stand in front of the open refrigerator for what seemed like years, I would also tell her to hurry up, "You''re letting all the ping pong balls fall out!"

She would lookat me like a was a loon. But anyone my age would remember the commercial about energy savings that used to show a refrig full of ping pong balls falling out..don''t they?

 

[LittleRock]

Date: 4/20/2008 10:34:40 PM
Author: miraclesrule

Date: 4/20/2008 10:15:26 PM

Author: LittleRock

My kids are tired of hearing me say;


I may have been born at night, but it wasn''t LAST NIGHT!!!


When we don''t know the answer to something we say ''Go ask Ms. Emily'' It''s from a Barbara Streisand movie. For the longest time the kids would be like who''s Ms. Emily? But it''s code for DH and I and means pretty much ''How the h**l would I know?'' bad right?

Isn''t it funny when your kids look at you like your nutso? It cracks me up.

Whenever my daughter would stand in front of the open refrigerator for what seemed like years, I would also tell her to hurry up, ''You''re letting all the ping pong balls fall out!''


She would lookat me like a was a loon. But anyone my age would remember the commercial about energy savings that used to show a refrig full of ping pong balls falling out..don''t they?

hehe, "True that, true that!"

 

[sera]

In awkward silences said in monotone... "Bueller? Bueller?" or "Anyone? Anyone?"

 

[luckystar112]

When I''d pick my nose when I was little my mom would always ask me if I was "digging for gold".
If my fly was down she''d ask if I was "selling baby food"....totally don''t get it.

Then there is the the typical mainer "you can''t get thah from he-ah" (you can''t get there from here).

Hmmm what else?

You were never drunk....you were "hammered".

Here in TX I''ve heard a few used often, like "Late!" instead of "bye" or "later".
"You''re gonna mind!" Which I guess means that you are going to make someone listen to you?

 

[diamondfan]

I liked the line from Steel Magnolias (two actually)

If you do not have anything nice to say, come sit next to me!

and at the wedding, a woman with a prominent butt area and a tight skirt was dancing and one of the stars said to the other, Her backside looks like two pig fighting under a blanket or something to that effect, which I thought was a funny visual.

 

[chicagohills]

NOTE: I have never used any of these.

"That would go over about as well as a turd in the Governor''s punchbowl."
Meaning: that''s probably not a good idea. Heard in the South.

"You can wish in one hand and sh!t in the other and see which fills up the fastest."
Meaning: wishing by itself doesn''t get you anything. Heard in the South.

"If? Well if a bullfrog had wings, he wouldn''t bump his @ss when he hops."
Meaning: not really sure, but something like deal with the situation at hand without relying on "if" something else happens.

"The Devil''s beatin'' his wife"
Said when it is both raining and the sun is shining at the same time. Heard in the South.

"Well sh!t fire and save matches!"
Meaning: wow, how about that?! Heard in the South.

"Hotter than two rats #$*%ing in a wool sock."
Meaning: It''s really hot. Heard in the South, where it really does get that hot.

"He/she looks like she was born sucking on lemons."
Meaning: someone has a sour expression. Heard in Midwest.

"You might want to throw your hat in there before you go in."
Meaning: it looks like a rough place. Heard in the South.

"I''ll bet his @ss was biting the seat..."
Said by my 74 -year-old FIL when describing someone who had passed him on a one-lane road and had made it without very much room to spare. Heard in the South.

 

[steph72276]

I''m from the south, so we have a tooonnnn of sayings, but I have a few I say a lot. Like Skippy, I say "too bad, so sad" to mean get over it. I also say this after being a kindergarten teacher "you get what you get and you don''t pitch a fit" meaning if there were 3 flavors of lollipops we were giving out, you don''t get to choose you get whatever we give you. Also, my hubby likes to try to play jokes on me, and I''ll say to him if I think he''s teasing, "you lie like you breath".

 

[Delster]

I love this thread! Here's a few more I collected over the weekend

Well that beats Banagher
- meaning something is unbelievable/surprising. Not sure why it would beat Banagher, as Banagher is a fairly unsurprising wee town in the midlands here!

I wouldn't kick her out of bed for eating Taytos
- meaning she's attractive (Taytos are potato chips)

He thinks his s*** is chocolate
- someone who thinks he's the bee's knees

And some different words...

We call sneakers 'runners' in Ireland with the exception of where I went to uni - where they call them 'tackies' or 'tacky-boots'. No idea why!

Oh and I thought of how Americans call bum bags 'fanny packs' - if you say that over here you'll get a whole lot of curious looks as we use the word fanny to refer to a much more intimate place on a lady!

bee have you seen those 1850 directory enquiry ads? With the dudes in the shiny spandex trackies? It's just dawned on me that when they say 'nifty' they mean 'quick'! I always thought they meant 'cool'!

 

[Lorelei]

Clumsy as a bull in a china shop.

 

[bee*]

Date: 4/21/2008 7:38:06 AM
Author: Delster

bee have you seen those 1850 directory enquiry ads? With the dudes in the shiny spandex trackies? It''s just dawned on me that when they say ''nifty'' they mean ''quick''! I always thought they meant ''cool''!

I heard it on the radio yesterday!

Just thought of something and I had to look it up-my granny always called short skirts "fanny pelmets"-
just had to look up that a pelmet is a narrow border of cloth!

Do you call pencil pairers "toppers"? A girl in collage asked me for a topper the other day-did not have a clue what she was talking about.

Also we call erasers "rubbers"-which provided great entertainment when you reached the age to know that other things are called rubbers also

 

[Delster]

No, I''d say ''pencil parer'' but BF says ''topper''. I rolled around the place laughing the first time I heard that! But he cracks up any time I say a word with a double ''o'' in it because I pronounce it as ''oooh''. There''s just no point me ever asking him to pass me a book. He''ll tell me to go looooooooook for it and then roll around the place laughing!

And I still call them rubbers even though I know the other meaning! Can''t break the habit!

BTW - does your Granny know the meaning of that Mundy lyric about the greyhound skirt?

And if you don''t, I am not explaining it online!!!

 

[diamondfan]

Steph, I used to tell my kids, You get what you get and you don''t get upset. This was helpful when the Happy Meal toy was not what they saw on tv. I said it MANY times.

 

[bee*]

haha I''ve heard that Mundy one before! If my granny was still alive I''m sure she would have loved it! She was as dirty minded as they come-her nickname was Boobs!

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

My pal Gale always says, "Dull as a box of rocks". Makes me smile everytime.

cheers--Sharon

 

[nomissjane]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before...I''m trying to keep up with all on this thread....

My favourite is if your hungry we would say -

''I''m so hungry, I could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck''

Love this one....

 

[nytemist]

Sera- Sometimes the same thing happens with me when I say something is ''neat''. Most people think I mean it sarcastically. I love the word neat.

Delster- I never realized the whole meaning of ''fanny'' until I started reading Irvine Welsh (he wrote Trainspotting) He writes in Scottish slang so he uses that and a few other words (like the bad word for a woman) in a completely different way than how we use them in the US. Years ago when my mom was packing to go on vacation somewhere, she asked me "where is my fanny pack?" and had no clue why I kept laughing so much.

 

[dianne]

I used this one today....came right out of my mouth even though I had completely forgotten about it...so I had to add it.

In my case, I planned to leave work on time because I had dinner plans so I said, "I''m gonna leave on time today if it hairlips Satan."---meaning I fully intended to do "whatever", no matter what.