Who shot John? (Idioms)

[shereads]

Threw her in a pond and skimmed ugly for a week.

"Her face could scare a buzzard away from a gut wagon."

~ Also by my dad. And no, I don't know what a gut wagon is, but I can imagine that buzzards would be drawn to them.

 

[Seattle Zack]

The French language has only one respectable cuss word, MERDE.

Spanish isn't much better. About the best it has to offer is, PUTA.

You know, I have to disagree on that one. I dated a Mexican girl (one with no green card) for several weeks, and the eloquence and rapidity that she and her relatives could expel exquisitely constructed extremely vulgar invictives was something to behold.

Road hard and put up wet.

That'd probably be rode hard and put up wet, right? Referring to horses. You gotta scrub em down or something. Stupid dumb beasts. I got no use for horses, unless they're filling out my trifecta by hitting third.

--Zack

 

[Edward Teach]

Happy as a dog with two dicks.

Nervous as a whore in church.

Hot as a half fucked fox in a forest fire.


Old Southern saying:

"Your dogs can run in my woods." = I like you. You are okay. I would share what I have with you.

(A farmers woods were a valuable resource. Hunting dogs, however, needed to exercise and practice but if the wildlife was chased too often it would leave the local woods to find more peaceful digs. Not only did that make meat more scarce but the balance of nature was sometimes upset, creating too many varmits that ate crops, etc.)

 

[matriarch]

Couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery. - (incompetent)

Face like the back end of a bus - (a tad unpleasant to look at)

Kicked the bucket (dead)

Hotter than hell (very warm)

To set one's cap at (work very had at making them one's own)



Can't think of any more at the moment, but there's hundreds of them. I'll have to write them down every time I use one....the wife is always giggling at my linguistic anomolies.

 

[only_more_so]

Did anyone mention: giving someone the hairy eyeball.

I used that yesterday, and the people I told thought I meant that the guy was checking me out. Maybe it's because I live near San Francisco that they thought it was a gay thing.

 

[SlickTony]

Good heavens, I never understood it to mean that. Where'd you say you used that expression?

 

[only_more_so]

Good heavens, I never understood it to mean that. Where'd you say you used that expression?

I live and work in Silicon Valley which is only like 25 miles south of San Francisco. People in California apparently haven't heard many expressions that I am quite familiar with having grown up on the east coast.

Anyway, I said that the security guard had given me the hairy eyeball when I came in that morning, and both guys I told thought it meant I thought he was checking me out.

They had also never heard the word "druthers" as in, if I had my druthers...

 

[only_more_so]

How about, "That's mighty white of you." or awfully white.