Post an ages old phrase you heard growing up

[StillShaving]

You need to re-lick that calf
(did not sufficiently complete a task the first time)

Is that hoe nursing?
(standing or moving too slowly when using the hoe to remove weeds from the vegetable garden)

Go jump in the lake ....shorted to just "go jump"

He/she doesn't have a pot to p*ss in
(dirt poor)

Got more dollars than sense

 

[StillShaving]

Not sure how to tone this one down.....but imagine someone trying to do some demanding physical task, one that takes lots of strength....and the other person is saying that he was...
straining so hard that you could cut lock washers off his back side.

 

[Mitzie]

'The lights are on, but there's nobody at home' (assessing the intelligence of a person)

 

[enrywivanh]

A boys best friend is his mother.

If brains were gunpowder you wouldn’t have enough to blow your hat off.

About as useful as a one legged man in an ar— kicking contest

It‘s pumping it out this morning.
(A cold and frosty morning)

Well I’ll go to stoke
(Frustrated)

 

[AimlessWanderer]

'The lights are on, but there's nobody at home' (assessing the intelligence of a person)

The wheel is spinning, but the hamster is dead

 

[RSC]

Don't take any wooden nickels.

 

[RSC]

The boy stood on the burning deck, eating peanuts by the peck.

I knew that one was a parody, but I was prompted to look up the original. It's "Casabianca", by Felicia Dorothea Hemans. It starts out
"The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but him had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead."

 

[SharpieB]

“If he went any slower he’d be going backwards” - my grandfather talking about slow drivers.

”All hat, no cattle” - My Texan uncle when describing someone who thinks they are a big shot.

”Crazier than a $-hithouse rat” - I still use this one!

 

[TexOkie Shaver]

You may only understand this if you live in the South:

"How about some shugah tonight?"

(This inquiry has nothing to do with an ingredient often used in baking... cough, cough.)

I’ve used that one myself.

 

[TexOkie Shaver]

'The lights are on, but there's nobody at home' (assessing the intelligence of a person)

A cup and saucer short a full set.

His/her elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top.

 

[sjblon]

Close only counts with horseshoes and hand grenades

Eat for the hunger to come

Take a long walk on a short pier

 

[SharpieB]

“Phony as a $3 bill”.

But unfortunately “phony” wasn’t usually the word used back in the ‘70’s.

 

[Stubblebum]

lower'n a snake's belly in a wagon rut

 

[shoelessjoe]

“Joe, that thing’s crookeder than a barrel of snakes”!
Heard after digging a straight, shallow trench for a backwater Arkansas friend/plumber

And then there was my dad & his oftimes colourful quips, which validated the fact that sarcasm is Chicago’s official language.
(quotations, his)

“He couldn’t hit a bull in the a** with a bass fiddle”! (generally reserved for a Cubs batter who just struck out looking.)

“I’ve seen better heads on a glass of beer”. (a congeanial, unsightly “skirt”)

“Come on, you a** ****, that traffic light’s not going to get any greener”
(sitting 2nd or 3rd at a light)

“Hey pal, whaddaya think, your mom & me were glass blowers”?
(the time I walked into the “frunchroom” & stood in front of the TV to watch a replay during an Ohio State-Michigan football game)