Twiddling your thumbs. How many more outdated expressions can you come up with??
I haven't heard the expression "Twiddling your thumbs" in a real long time. About ten minutes ago I read "Twiddling my thumbs" in a book and remembered my grandfather, always bored if he wasn't working, sitting in his recliner "Twiddling his thumbs".
So how many other expressions no longer in use can all of you come up with.
Serious memory lane stuff.
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Like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
Don’t throw the baby out with the dish water.
knee high to a grasshopper.
corn should be knee high by the forth of July.
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Worthless as a football bat.
Worthless as teats on a boar.
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If you had brains, you'd be dangerous
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you sound like a broken record...
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Teats on a boar hog might not be as useless a one thinks.
Neighbor was raised on a big hog farm in Iowa.
He said the boars with the most teats brought more money than those with less.
As it goes the boar determines the number of teats his sow offspring will have.
The more teats moma has the more piglets she can support.
Never raised hogs so your "mileage may vary".
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I'll take your word for it..........
seal the deal with a handshake.......
family programming on TV.....
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My mom used to say “I’m free, white, and 21, and I’ll do what I want!”
She was not a politically correct woman.
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OK, OK, I know I said just one more but a post today reminded me of another oldie.
Do you want a badge or a chest to pin it on?
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You got to get up purty early in the morning.......
to catch me peeking in your bedroom window!
Don
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I bet not many have heard this one........................
when my Grandmother was frustrated or in a situation where a swear word would have been appropriate..........she used to say "FIDDLE-STICKS"
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mohawk600: 31514623481499/comments/31514651797659
I bet not many have heard this one........................
when my Grandmother was frustrated or in a situation where a swear word would have been appropriate..........she used to say "FIDDLE-STICKS"
fiddle sticks ranks right up there with,,, Mumbly peg........and jack knife
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I have heard it many times
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The early bird gets the worm.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
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As worthless as windshield wipers on a goats azz
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My grandfather use to tell me: “You’ll never be forgotten by the girl you got for nothing” .
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Way back in the day someone would ask you for a match to light a smoke......
Got a match?
I haven't had a match since Superman died!
PU What a stinker! 🙂
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mohawk600 I remember that one and when heard it usually meant the equivalent of "nonsense" or "bovine excrement" but seeing your post I had to google for the fun of it and this is one of the "hits" I got: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fid1.htm
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"Give me the Readers Digest version."
I used that the other day, and the young man had no idea what it meant...or he just felt like continuing on with his long running, and exceptionally boring, story.
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WOW! When did this stuff become outdated, maybe I need to get out more.
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I have been "outdated" for a very long time. I saw on Facebook (my apologies) someone posted a picture of Red Skelton and were asking who he was. It took a few hours and about 20 wrong answers before he was properly identified!!!! 😮
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