Old Sayings
By Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99367)
Atlanta, Georgia
March 16, 2017 8:30pm CST
You're so slow you couldn't catch a cold.
He's three bricks shy of a load.
She's as ugly as forty miles of bad road.
You look like you was sent for and couldn't come.
He's tight as Dick's hat band.
You sound like a dying calf in a gully washer.
He don't have both oars in the water.
She don't have a lazy bone in her body.
He's drunker than a blind owl.
He's got more money than Carter has liver pills.
Come in, put your feet up and set a spell.
When you read these sayings you know I'm a Georgia mountain girl. I heard these and many more growing up. They bring back a lot of good memories. I don't hear them much anymore. We've grown far away from our parents and grand parents day.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
17 Mar 17
They make our conversation colorful and interesting. I hear them all the time, but I relish hearing them and when I hear it, I enjoy it .
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@RubyHawk We've lost some of this due to television an internet. An unusual one I hear occasionally is: Like white on rice. Means two things so close you can't distinguish them from one another.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
18 Mar 17
@Jeanniemaries I hear that one too, and like two peas in a pod.
@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
17 Mar 17
I enjoyed reading those! I've heard a few of them.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
17 Mar 17
They may be heard in Georgia, but they aren't only heard in the south - The Carters one my mother said all the time and she was a city girl!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
17 Mar 17
@RubyHawk I think the same sayings are all over the US. My father was from LA and my mother from Maryland...but she picked up that saying in NJ Carters headquarters was near where we lived.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54720)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I am familiar with most of these too
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
17 Mar 17
I love all the old sayings too @RubyHawk . I still today use a lot of old ones.
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@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
18 Mar 17
@RubyHawk I do love the expressions on some people's faces.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
18 Mar 17
@nanette64 Probably think I sound like a hick. I like to say things like that to my better half because he doesn't have a clue what I mean.
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@Deepizzaguy (122269)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
18 Mar 17
One of my favorites that my late mom told me about people was "Faces you see, souls you don't." or a saying from a former New Orleans sportscaster who is no longer with us which "You are nuttier than a squirrel."
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@Deepizzaguy (122269)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
18 Mar 17
@RubyHawk It is translated from Spanish which is "Caras vemos pero almas no vemos." The reason the sportscaster said "Nuttier than a squirrel is because he grew up in New Orleans and he saw a lot of squirrels in his neighborhood.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
18 Mar 17
@Deepizzaguy That sounds logical. I suppose we had lots of fruitcakes.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
18 Mar 17
We have sayings related to a particular place too...usually those expressions surface among old friends.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
20 Mar 17
Very interesting sayings. Some are new to me and some don't sense, but guessing most are not supposed to!
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
17 Mar 17
I am in Alabama and I have heard most of these and more.
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