Old sayings..

[ironglow]

  I was reminiscing, thinking of some of the old sayings we hear no longer. 
  My Dad never called a bicycle a bicycle..but rather a "wheel".  likely a word derived from the old fashioned bikes with a 5' front wheel.
  Some of his phrases I suspect, were very old..and passed down through generations.  When something was all messed up..he used to say it was all "bollocksed" up!  I can only believe that it came from our old Scottish
  heritage, or a even English from colonial times, since a word often used by those from the UK is "bollocks!"

  More lately we used to hear a slippery guy called a "fox'.  ..And old sayings like... "your team of horses, couldn't pull a setting hen off her nest".
  Then there was,  "he couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag!" *

  How about "tin Lizzie", to describe the model A and T Fords?.   ...Or .."Wow, he was going like 60!"

  So may, and so many "regional" ones..I remember when on maneuvers in deep mud, some of our southern born troops calling that mud.."gumbo"..

  OK..your turn..

  *  Curiously, back when that phrase ws used, somebody tried an experiment with a professional boxer.  If the paper bag were quite roomy, he couldn't fight his way out.

    ..Not enough resistance to punch a hole.

[BUGEYE]

My first 12 years was spent living on a gravel road, and we called the highway the “hard road.”

[phalanx]

Don’t let the door hit you in the azz. But that is not a very old one. 

[ulav8r]

Gumbo is a particular type of mud, slick and sticky like clay but black; common in the Missippi delta.

[Bob Riebe]

 Stich in time, saves nine.

[gene_225]

Gumbo is a particular type of mud, slick and sticky like clay but black; common in the Mississippi delta.

And along the Missouri River in Nebraska where, as I remember, it was brown but really sticky.

[DDZ]

My mom would say once in awhile. "It doesn't amount to a hill of beans"

Not sure that its old, but one I have used at times is "Harder than woodpecker lips"

[ironglow]

Ulav8r & Gene..thanks for your claifications.

  How about "take the bull by the horns"? 

  Or.. "it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog: !

  Then there is;  "She is about two axe handles across the azz."

   "The proof is in the pudding"  ..or is it "putting" ?

 ..Or gun related..  "Flash in the pan"  "keep your powder dry"  "lock, stock and barrel".

  A very old, Biblical one...  "iron sharpens iron"   and a classic from Pilate, "what is truth ?"

[mcbammer]

Gumbo is a particular type of mud, slick and sticky like clay but black; common in the Missippi delta.

  Ole people used to say if you walk across a  field of gumbo you'd be a foot taller when you got to the other side .

[BUGEYE]

There's a bunch of sayings here that I remember hearing when I was a little boy.
Hadn't heard most of them in many years.

[DDZ]

Just last night a big locust tree at the end of my driveway fell across the township road. I was getting my saw ready to go out and cut it up, and the township crew came and was waiting on a backhoe to come and get it off the road. Which reminded me of another saying we used at times when I worked construction.  "If it can't be done from a seat. It ain't gettin done".  Used to say that referring to guys that did their best to get out of doing any manual labor.   

[nw_hunter]

'DANG" She's madder than a wet hen!

[Dee]

A day late, and a dollar short.

[neckisred]

He built the house he was born in..............

[ironglow]

  "Mad as a wet hen"   "older than Methuselah"  "rub a galled horse, and he may kick"

   ..Here's one for all those "offended" college students. They are, "still wet behind the ears" or "green as grass"

    "drunk as Patty's pig"  ..Actually I have heard several adjectives used with Patty's pig.. Sick as,  mad as, wild as..

  "slick as a whistle"  "happy as a hog with a snoot full of moonshine"  "quiet as a mouse" 

 

[Dee]

Uglier than a mud fence. She looks like 4 miles of bad road. I've seen better heads on a nickel beer. Squeal like a pig hung under the gate. Bawl like a calf in a hail storm.
About to turn you every way but loose. Kick his ass till his nose bleeds. Till the cows come home.

[ironglow]

"a friend... in need, is a friend indeed" 

   "Good fences make good neighbors"  Actually Robert Frost was committing a "play on words' here.

  Yes, good fences keep boundaries in place and demark properties.. but Frost seemed to believe that if one were truly a good neighbor, there would be no need for a fence.

     ..Guess he never ran cattle...

[Bob Riebe]

Don't cry over spilled milk.
Grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
Star light, star bright, First star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight.

[Dee]

No fool, like an old fool.

[Mule 11]

If ya see a boy? Kick his ass and send him home to mama... don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. If you ______, don’t ever darken my doorway with your shadow again.

[Dee]

Stubborn as a mule.

[nw_hunter]

"a friend... in need, is a friend indeed" 

   "Good fences make good neighbors"  Actually Robert Frost was committing a "play on words' here.

  Yes, good fences keep boundaries in place and demark properties.. but Frost seemed to believe that if one were truly a good neighbor, there would be no need for a fence.

     ..Guess he never ran cattle...

Or lived next door to mexico, or Joe Biden

[Mule 11]

Sharp as a tack, thick as a brick.

[ironglow]

  Slow as molasses in January...neither hide nor hair.. What a revolting development this is! (Great Gildersleeve)....

  playing cat and mouse... she's a cold fish... dog tired...dog eared... wolf at the door... sad sack... or.....
 
   SOS (sack of S**t) ....plumb loco... even Steven...

[Bob Riebe]

Cold as a a witches teat
Smart as a pail of rocks

[Mule 11]

Not the sharpest pencil in the box/ tool in the shed. If it’s a good tool it’s worth building a roof over it. Don’t look a gift pelosi errr whore in the mouth.

[Lloyd Smale]

dad used to say life is full of sucker punches that only apply to suckers.

[gene_225]

Gumbo is a particular type of mud, slick and sticky like clay but black; common in the Missippi delta.

  Ole people used to say if you walk across a  field of gumbo you'd be a foot taller when you got to the other side .

I've heard that also.

[ironglow]

  How about...  horse of another color  or .... cat got your tongue?

    Hog wild.. or   Slicker than snot on a door knob

[Dee]

The cart before the horse

A pistol of an idea