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[Monketoes]

My Mother would say "I swanny" too God, I Miss Her!

and,

You're acting like a Bull in a China Shop

Were you raised in a Barn?

I'm going to Jerk a Knot in your T ail, if you don't behave!

Be Still...you're like a worm in hot ashes

When somebody was a bad shot...they couldn't hit the Broadside of a Barn

He could talk the horns off a Billy Goat

and my other ones would make y'all Blush or get me kicked outta here LOL

[stilltamn8r]

Been really enjoying these! My Dad, an old Texan had lots of these sayings...sadly, most are not "repeatable"...LoL!

[kittymomNC]

""I tried it six ways from Sunday""

To refer to ""dumb"" people:

He's one can short of a six-pack!

She's not cookin' on all four burners!

[Mominohio]

Thanks everyone! These have been great! Many of them I haven't heard in a coon's age!

A few I had never heard, and love adding them to my list.

My mom also used to tell us (jokingly!!!!) as she was threatening us about our behavior, "I'll hit you so hard when you wake up your clothes will be out of style!"

Or "I'll knock you into next week" again, in a joking manner when we were about to do something we weren't supposed to do or saying something she didn't like.

Was talking with my friend again (who's mom was from Virginia) and she said they had a saying down there I'd never heard.

When they garden down there, often on the sides of steep hills, the large pumpkins, watermelons and such might roll down the hill and smash or roll over other produce, so they had to hold them in place as they got bigger. They would put sticks down into the dirt to brace the large fruit from rolling, and called this "scotchin' the punkins". Another new one on me. Anyone else heard this?

[Mominohio]

Oh and lets not forget the ever famous "I brought you into this world, and I can take you back out!"

[MaggieToo]

On 4/22/2014 Lakk said:

On 4/22/2014 MrsSweetieBear said:

mominohio, my grandma used that saying, "the milk has gone blinky." My oldest brother said it the last time I was visiting him, LOL! Hadn't heard it anywhere else.

My favorite that another grandma said was "oh my stars." In the next generation, my mom said "oh my word."

My grandmother use to say "oh my stars and garters", she also said "I swanny" because she wouldn't say "I swear."

I remember my mom saying, "Well I'll swan". She may have said swanny, but all I remember is swan. Must have been a southern saying. Mom was from Georgia.

[scchicki]

If it rained and the sun was shining, "the devil was beating his wife." "My house looks like the devil had a fit in it." (The house was a mess.)

[MaggieToo]

My grandmother used to say ""This room is so small you can't even cuss a cat in it.""

[betteb]

On 4/23/2014 monketoes said:

My Mother would say "I swanny" too God, I Miss Her!

and,

You're acting like a Bull in a China Shop

Were you raised in a Barn?

I'm going to Jerk a Knot in your T ail, if you don't behave!

Be Still...you're like a worm in hot ashes

When somebody was a bad shot...they couldn't hit the Broadside of a Barn

He could talk the horns off a Billy Goat

and my other ones would make y'all Blush or get me kicked outta here LOL

OMGosh I got the bolded lines above, all the time!

[ennui1]

On 4/23/2014 Hildegarde Withers said:

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

A year from now, you will wish you had started today.