You better straighten out and fly right.

You can't push a string

So poor they don't have a pot to pi$$ in nor a window to throw it out.

If his brain was put in a matchbox, it would roll around like a BB in a Box Car.

You want your head handed to you on a platter?

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Let's burn that bridge when we get to it.

Slower than molasses in January.

The old man like this one when we were going somewhere. "Don't act like you were just shot out of a cannon."

"If we had ham we'd have ham and eggs-If we had eggs."
From the time of the Great depresssion.(1929ish)

If he had a brain he'd be dangerous.

If his brain was dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.

Fair winds and following seas.

few more
 

- too many cooks in the kitchen

- Beggers can't be choosers (or choosey)

- if wishes were horses then beggars could ride

- now that's a horse of a different color

-I wasn't born yesterday....I've been around the block you know

-You're Cruisin for a bruisin....(my family would add...-Susan= my given name)

-She's got bats in her belfry...but oh what a staircase (but only when referring to a well built ditsy girl)

-Built like a Sherman tank

-well...now that's a deep subject....for a shallow mind like mine

-Now that went over like a pregnant pole vaulter

-Don't burn your bridges behind you

-Oh for cryin out loud (my mom always said it)

-Judas H Priest (my friends mom always said it)

-See ya later alligator...afterwhile crocadile...see ya soon big baboon

-She's a Dusey (meaning something special but began by referring to the Dusenberg car....BTW I was dubbed Doozer when born...my nickname)

-Well I'll be a monkey's uncle

- he was 2 sheets to the wind (drunk)

- drunker than a skunk

- naked as a jay bird

busier than a one-armed paper hanger