A bad day's fishing is always better than a good day in the office.
Post an ages old phrase you heard growing up
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Keep it up - I'll give you something to cry about!
Don't put the cart before the horse.
Don't put the cart before the horse.
You are flogging a dead horse!
I swear, that boy was at the back of the line when the brains were being handed out.
He's not got a lick of sense.
He's not got a lick of sense.
Six of one and half dozen of the other.
It's too windy to haul rocks.
They were so big it only took eleven to make a dozen.
It's too windy to haul rocks.
They were so big it only took eleven to make a dozen.
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"I brought you into this world, I can take you back out"
He is loonier than a pet coon.
He is loonier than a pet coon.
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My Irish parents had a million of them. A couple I heard a million times on minding my own business:
If it’s drowning you’re after, don’t torment yourself with shallow water.
Don’t be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your way.
Don't let your mouth break your nose for you.
If it’s drowning you’re after, don’t torment yourself with shallow water.
Don’t be breaking your shin on a stool that’s not in your way.
Don't let your mouth break your nose for you.
i didn’t just fall off a turnip truck
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When I was little and wanted to go play and asked Mary who came in to help in the kitchen and around the house her response was "Law chile I can't; I've got garments and ancestors and a bone in my foot." which was all really worrying to a three or four year old.
“Don’t pick your nose or your head will cave in” was a good one from my childhood.
And when we bugged the adults during cocktail hour... “children should be seen and not heard” was a staple.
And when we bugged the adults during cocktail hour... “children should be seen and not heard” was a staple.
Liar, liar, pants on 
fire
fire
Pick yourself up by the bootstraps.
I’ll give you something to cry about.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I’ll give you something to cry about.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Another Black Country favourite:
"Keep out th'oss road"
Stay out of trouble
"Keep out th'oss road"
Stay out of trouble
"Follow me"
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My grandma grew up on a farm and used this one - "scarce as hen's teeth."
Hasn't got the sense to come in out of the rain.
Hasn't got the sense to come in out of the rain.
He's crazy as a loon
Naked as a jaybird- mostly referring to little one running around naked
Stubborn as a mule
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Once is coincidence, twice is suspicious, three is enemy action.
My Mama didn't raise no idiot
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