or like stink on sh!t. -- j
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another trio::

"six of one or half a dozen of another"

"happy as a raccoon in a cornfield"

"happy as a pig in sh!t"

-- j
.

That's from Gravity's Rainbow. Opening scene.

ours are green and gold! . and blue, sometimes --
kinda iridescent;;; beautiful bugs, and big, if you
ride a bike!!! -- j

p.s. what outdoor temperature is "neutral" for a biker?
in my experience -- depending on humidity (the wetter,
the cooler) it's from 82 to 85. . you don't need a jacket,
and you don't sweat while riding. . stoplights and signs
introduce a different range of temperatures!
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They are all over the place in Queensland Australia. In one of my favorite bars with outdoor seating you have to watch out for them in the trees and on phone lines so you don't end up with possum pee in your drink, etc.;^)

From a Texan, "It's all scrambled up like a dog's breakfast."

Another one. I ignore whether it was Tennessee or Kentucky where I heard this expression, and I'm applying it at the same time (as pronounced):
"I don' pay it no ne'er mine."

And I actually beat a student once with a wet noodle. I was teaching an AutoCAD class, and 5 weeks into a 6 week class, one student still hadn't figured out the difference between the actions of the left and right mouse buttons, in spite of my careful explanations. I saw that the student was about to use the wrong mouse button, and I warned him that if he got it wrong, I would flog him with a piece of spaghetti from the leftover lunch bin. He clicked the wrong button, and when I hit him in the hand with the limp piece of spaghetti, he intoned, "I deserve it, I deserve it."

One set of colloquialisms I picked up was from my Army days in Ft. Leonard Wood in February:
It's cold, it's cold, it's cold, it's cold
It's cold as the frost on a champagne glass
It's cold as the hair on a polar bear's ass
It's cold as the nipple on a witch's tit
It's cold as a bucket of penguin shit.

Yes. I had to have that explained to me - I did not know what 'white sauce' was.

Jan

Yessir, they`re the bigger, furry version of no see ums, all freakin teeth.

Yes. I had to have that explained to me - I did not know what 'white sauce' was.

Jan

My husband who is a Southerner, pronounces Louisville, KY kind of like, "Lullvul." Even though I come from Detroit, MI, I've always liked "Kiss my grits."

My grandpa was an Okie. He had a bunch of em...

"I hope to shit in my mess kit." was one of my favorites. He had been in the Navy for 20 years during WWII. He had another one that I don't say. He'd tell a story and complete it with, "If that aint true there aint a &%$ in Georgia." You can guess what word he put there. It's a word I don't say.

I do miss him. We lost him too young, 65. It was probably the hardest I ever wept...

yep, and so hey is common up north too, cause of all dem Swedes n Germans.

Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't... gotta check em first.

possibly even fitsin...

I'm with LB, Yall is plural, All yall is everyone, no to exclude any at all.
Speaking to a group of 10 people, you could indicate 2 or more and they would be yall, like can yall in the back hear me.... if they building catches fire, then all yall need to go out that exit 'or yon'. (or yon= over yonder =over there)

"Like white on rice"

Makes sense, Canada is colder... I'm from Ohio, where in the winter it is often "Colder than a witches ti* in a brass bowl"...

And they are careful to say, "Not one of those little brown Junebugs like y'all have out in California, I mean the big glossy blue Junebugs we have out here!"

Jan, hoping for rain that is like a cow...etc.

Whipping one with a wet noodle might be something like what I started recently: "Just because I'd like to give ya a bob upside your head, doesn't mean I hate you...I just would like to see if I can reboot your brain".

Stems from the misuse of the word "Hate" which must always include 'physical' animosity.

Again, my Kentucky dad never said that, but my Canadian mother did. Go fig.

My dad's from Kentucky, and I never heard any of his family use those phrases.
My mom, however, who is Canadian, has in the past said “Back teeth are floating”.

ducks just love to eat June Bugs! -- j

p.s. rainin' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock = downpour
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The Missouri office collects some of this to use on me because they know I love them. My favorite: "I'll jump on that like a duck on a Junebug."

I can see it.

Jan

“Born on third and thought he hit a triple.”

I do not like the comments in the article on several of these sayings (including the above) and I would like to morph them a bit. How about,
"Didn't matter that he was born on third, 'cause he hit a triple."

Jan