Sayings you remember from years ago

ACDII

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Your about as handy as a piss pot with a green handle! Always wondered about that one!
They were made from either ceramic or porcelain. The unfired clay is called green, so a green handle on a piss pot would fall right off when you tried to use it.

My favorite and use it quite often, Well, Bless your little heart.
 

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An old boss tended to mix up sayings. We called them "Washisms". Sometimes we'd call him "Confucialeski" (you know, after Confucius). He was of Polish decent.
Anyway, one of our favorites was, "That's gonna blow up like a Christmas tree." Another one, popular outside our list of washisms was "we'll burn that bridge when we get to it."
 

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When I was a kid, Saturday morning was the only day of the week I could lay in bed. My Dad worked third shift as a policeman and when he got home at 7:30 and still found me in bed his saying was

"do something, even if it's wrong!". LOL. He was an amazing man and miss him. Always kept busy and instilled that in me.
 

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It's a lot easier to STAY out of trouble, than it is to GET out of trouble.
 

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My dad would say " I'd reather push my Ford then drive a Chevy"
And I'm the same way. But have never needed to ever push a Ford.
 
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It’s so cold, it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

*if anyone knows this one without googling I would be surprised. Nautical term.
 

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"Turn your hat around and make it look like you're on the way back" - told me when I was sent after something we didn't have with us.

"Slicker than greased monkey snot"

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

Runnin like her ass was on fire and her hair was catching! (referring to a piece of equipment that was running good).

If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets.
 
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Wish in one hand and sh!t in the other; see which one fills up first.
 
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58Ford

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Our version was if “Wishes were horses beggars would ride.”
I didn’t know of the fishes one.

“You're flogging a dead horse”