Funny sayings of old time country folk

[Chop]

Circulate them and spread them to new generations before they die out.



It’s colder than a witch's titties today.

 

[Chop]

That boy’s smarter than a tree full of owls.


(this was one Darrell Royal liked to say)

 

[Chop]

He’s about as useful as a teat on a boar.

 

[SabreHorn]

Pert near but not plum

That dog won't hunt

He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple

 

[Chop]

He’s about as useful as a teat on a boar.

 

[Chop]

How are you doing?

Fair to Middlin'




(one of my Grandmothers used to grade cotton at her Dad's gin in W. Texas, so I know the origin of that phrase)

 

[mchammer]

About to lose my religion

 

[Horn6721]

I am fixing to
Whatever you need "fixin" to do

 

[Chop]

We'll be there.....if the creeks don't rise.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

We'll be there.....if the creeks don't rise.

And the good Lord willin'!

 

[WorsterMan]

If it's got tits or a transmission, sooner or later it's gonna give you trouble!

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

If yer transmission gives out don't you pitch a hissy fit!

 

[Chop]

The tough part is done already, and we’re almost finished.

“We’re down to the short rows.”

 

[Chop]

Earl Don grows corn “as high as an elephant’s eye.”

 

[Chop]

That piece of junk must be “held together with baling wire.”

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Ok, I'll admit I've been out of Tennessee for a while but I grew up with every old time hillbilly saying saying there ever was. However since edumacatin myself and working in the business world in Texas the last 35 years I thought I had forgotten them all. A quick Google took me down memory lane of so many I had forgotten but some of them I actually still use today. I promise I won't post anything I really didn't use or hear growing up.. Here's one I haven't heard since th 70's:

"You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear."

My Nana would occasionally say that. I'm guessing you can all figure this one out.

 

[Chop]

I’ve never met a more miserly penny pincher than Steve.

He’s “tighter than Dick’s hatband.”

(this old saying has nothing to do with anatomy)

 

[WorsterMan]

My first job in a retail bank, President was a good old boy that grew up on a farm. He had more sayings than I could keep up with or remember. I told him one time: Walter, if I could remember all your sayings, I could write a book make money one day!!

 

[WorsterMan]

A couple from the Bible I always thought were early insightful and true. I will not comment on personal experience for several reasons.

Psalms 21:

Verse 9: Better to live on the corner of a roof than to share with a quarrelsome wife.

Verse: 21

Better to live in the desert than with a quarrelsome and ill tempered wife.

Uhh, a lot of wisdom in those words!

 

[Driver 8]

About a lazy person:

He won't hit a lick

 

[WorsterMan]

Not sure if movie line or Willie Nelson:

She could suck a golf ball through a garden hose!

 

[mchammer]

My dad would say someone had more excuses (or whatever) than Carter has little liver pills.

Carter's Little Liver Pills - Wikipedia

 

[WorsterMan]

That used car....

Was a pig in a poke!

 

[WorsterMan]

We are with the Government and we are here to " help" you.

 

[WorsterMan]

All hat, no cattle!

 

[WorsterMan]

Come on guys, there are more... I am too old to remember many of them!

 

[Chop]

a pig in a poke

That's also what happens when Arkansas plays Oklahoma State.

 

[Horn6721]

here is one that I seem to be good at
get off your High Horse

 

[Chop]

here is one that I seem to be good at
get off your High Horse

And "Eatin' high on the hog."

 

[Chop]

He's as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.