Katie bar the door!

[phillygirl]

and other weird sayings.

I learned that apparently that is a common saying on some parts of the country. I'd never heard it until Adam used it a bunch of times this week.

What are some other local sayings that might not be so common in other parts of our country...or are just plain weird?

I have a friend that says "hold onto your chewing gum!" in similar situations. I've now taken to saying it.

[Frostbit]

The odds are good; but the goods are odd!!

[Celeste Chalfonte]

and other weird sayings.

I learned that apparently that is a common saying on some parts of the country. I'd never heard it until Adam used it a bunch of times this week.

What are some other local sayings that might not be so common in other parts of our country...or are just plain weird?

I have a friend that says "hold onto your chewing gum!" in similar situations. I've now taken to saying it.

(S/he) looks like s/he's been drove hard and put up wet.

S/he's not worth powder and shot enough to blow (him/her) away.

I cussed (so-and-so) until a fly wouldn't pitch on him.

[Gingersnap]

Awesome sauce. I've just been hearing this over the past 8 or 9 months and now a commercial uses it.

The one that cracks me up is one my Grandmother used in very rare instances, "She/he looked like Death eating crackers". It conveyed the situation where a very ill person was more or less "bravely" carrying on when they should have been in bed.

[Novaheart]

I'd rather be dipped in shit.

Smiling like a jackass eating briars.

"in for a penny in for a pound" - You'd be surprised how many people have no idea what that means.

God will get thee and I will be his messenger.

Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

She'd steal the candy from a baby's mouth.

[Gingersnap]

I still like "Jesus in a chicken basket" for total astonishment. Did Nova bring that one over?

[Billy Jingo]

I got one from my brother-in-law that I use occasionally. "He don't know within 40 miles where he shit last."

And of course, Norm's, "You rock the mullet."

My mom has a lot of Oklahoma sodbuster sayings but my favorite is, "He's as drunk as Cooter Brown."

You could even write a song with it.

Cooter Brown
Cooter Brown
Momma says I am as drunk as Cooter Brown
And he is
I woke on a porch
In someone else's shorts
But I ain't never been as drunk as Cooter Brown

And so forth

[Adam]

"Lord willing, and the Creek don't rise."

My mother and my grandmother used that one all the time when I was growing up.

I was probably in my mid-30s before I learned that "Creek" was not referring to a smaller body of water, but instead to the Creek Indians. It suddenly made more sense to me why my mother would say such a thing in the middle of a summer drought, which puzzled me as a child.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

I'd rather be dipped in shit.

Smiling like a jackass eating briars.

"in for a penny in for a pound" - You'd be surprised how many people have no idea what that means.

God will get thee and I will be his messenger.

Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

She'd steal the candy from a baby's mouth.

You left out "He wouldn't say 'shit' if he had a mouthful."

[Celeste Chalfonte]

"Lord willing, and the Creek don't rise."

My mother and my grandmother used that one all the time when I was growing up.

I was probably in my mid-30s before I learned that "Creek" was not referring to a smaller body of water, but instead to the Creek Indians. It suddenly made more sense to me why my mother would say such a thing in the middle of a summer drought, which puzzled me as a child.

Maybe in your neck of the woods. Where Philly has her mosquito farm, we used to say, "Good Lord willing and the tide don't rise." Because if the tide got too high, the ferry couldn't make it across the Chesapeake and wasn't nobody going nowhere, to put it in the vernacular.

[scott]

"Pot committed" from Poker.

[Tom Servo]

“As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chairs.”

“I haven't seem [him/her] since Hector was a pup!”

“Gooder'n snuff and not as dusty!”

“Flat as a flitter.”

“Ain't got the sense that God gave an ant.” (Or geese, or a squirrel.)

“So buck-toothed he could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.”

Everyone knows 'bless your heart, but I prefer, “Bless your little pea-pickin' heart.”

“Useless as tits on a boar.”

“Shit or get off the pot.” (Who says southerners can't be impatient?)

“Finer than gnat hairs split three ways.” Or for less format settings, “Shittin' in tall cotton.”

“That dog won't hunt.”

“Wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.”

And two I hear a lot on a Washington DC-based netcast I listen to daily:

“As ugly as a tree full of owls.” and “Yuck with a hand gesture.”

[Gingersnap]

'Hector was a pup' and 'tits on a boar(bull)' I have heard. We say, "shoot or give up the gun". I've just heard 'ugly as a tree full of owls' and I'm desperate to use it conversationally.

[Frostbit]

No blood... no foul!! - True Philly!!

[gary m]

Don't know shit from Shinola.
Colder than a well digger's ass.
Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra. (Philly, true?)
Fell outta the ugly tree and hit every branch.
Half a bubble off of plumb.
Dumb as the day is long.