Old Sayings
 

What are some of the sayings that you remember growing up that you don't hear or seldom hear today?

Inspired by Gracie's - Your mother wears combat boots. :smiley:

cream always rises to the top

I'll buy that for a nickel.

Who died and made you Grace Kelly?

My Grandpa used to say “You’ve made your bed now lie in it….”

I have not heard that for a bit, possibly the current day expression is:

You’ve made your bed now find someone to blame or sue :ohdear:.

Don't paint yourself into a corner.

Happy wife Happy life

Do I have to slap you into next Tuesday.

Holy Toledo!

(Remember Uncle Tonoose? What show was he on and what was the actor's name who played him!)

"Why I'll be a dirty bird!" ~George Gobel

The show was Make Room for Daddy starring Danny Thomas. Uncle Tonoose was played by Hans Conried.

old saying: "if you lie down with the dogs, you come up with fleas"

I loved Uncle Tonoose on the Danny Thomas show! Hans Conried played Uncle Tonoose, and I remember that he was from Lebanon. Whenever I hear of happenings in modern-day Lebanon I think of Uncle Tonoose.

On that same note, I was so surprised to discover that there really IS a Danbury, Connecticut! That's where Rob & Laura Petri lived.

To stay on track... Holy Toledo is a phrase we all used growing up in my area of Toledo. :ho:

Bingo!

Here's another...

Holy Cow! (Means the same as the more contemporary expression "Holy Macaroni" or "Holy Mackerel")

One would have to remember that dear, old, and treasured expression;

holy ****!

My mother used to say "What took you so long, where did you go, CANARSIE"

I was shocked to find out there really is a Canarsie.

"Folded like a cheap camera" and "you sound like a broken record". The under 30 crowd doesn't even know what a record is.

"You sound like a broken MP3 player (or iPod)" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

If you wanna dance, you gotta pay the fiddler.

Remember "He who pays the piper, calls the tune"? Was a long time before I could not only understand the comment, but also pay the piper. Fortunately over time I learned that I was the piper and the tune caller and life really got fun!


LW888

"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

"A stich in time saves nine"

You can't spit at the heavens without them spitting back"

"That dog won't hunt."

"it depends on whose ox is being gorged."

There are starving children in Africa

I remember an old expression that is gratefully dead and gone:

"Children should be seen and not heard."

Thankfully, my parents never said that-- or saw it that way!

Thought of another one
 

Reap what you sow.

Your wife made you post that one....didn't she?

Oh, oh, oh...
 

What goes around comes around.

Or is that expression still around?

Farmer Grandma: "You'll eat a bushel of dirt before you die."

Saving money
 

It is not how much money you make, it is how much money you keep.

Penny earned, is a penny saved.

Yep

"You're so lucky now!!! I used to walk to school 5 miles back and forth, in the rain, snow....." :)

Like a bad penny you keep coming back.

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Hold your horses

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2 shakes of a lambs tale

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3 sheets to the wind

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... or a peck of dirt!

Now, what was that one about going blind??? I've been a bit forgetful lately and I can't remember what it was!

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Children should be seen and not heard. You certainly never hear that anymore

Triple play
 

Keep cracking your knuckles and you'll get arthritis! {It's false. It does no harm and the cracking sound is the release of gas.}

If you get hurt doing that, I'll kill ya! {I don't think mom ever realized that if she did, that I would never speak to her again.)

You wanna get your mouth washed out with soap? {Of course I wanted to get my mouth washed out with soap... especially brown soap. Didn't everbody?}