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jjirons69
06-12-2013, 08:47 AM
My dad is king of colloquialisms. Everything was hot as something, cold as something, wet as something, etc., you get the drift. I grew up around that and I use a lot of them on a daily basis myself, so I thought it's be fun to see the ones you guys say or like. That's right, guys, as colloquialisms seem to be a guy thing. Some of my personal favorites, most of which I use from time to time and some I often hear. Posting here might give me some new ones. ;)
Hard as Chinese algebra.
High as a Georgia pine.
F***ed up as Hogan's goat.
Hot as the hinges of hell.
Hot as Hades.
Cold as a landlord's heart.
Cold as a witches tit in a brass bra.
Cold as a gravediggers a$$.
Warm as in your mother's arms.
Lost as last year's Easter egg.
F***ed up as a can of worms.
Tight as a hat band.
Quick as grease through a goose.
Slick as owl $hit.
Sweating like a whore in church.
Bleeding like a stuck pig.
Horny as a two d*ck goat.
Dumb as a bag of hammers.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
He's a couple cards short of a full deck.
His elevator doesn't go to the top floor.
Off like a prom dress.
Heading out like a newborn.
Busy as a one-armed paper hanger.
Lord willing and the creek don't rise.
I'll post more as I hear them or they come to mind.
kelmac07
06-12-2013, 09:00 AM
F***ed up like a football bat.
Finer than frogs hair, split ways.
He's a couple cans short of a six-pack.
Hotter than a fresh f***ed fox in a forest fire.
Busier than a one legged man in an a$$ kicking contest.
ColdCuts
06-12-2013, 09:03 AM
Great list, Jamie!
F***ed up as Hogan's goat?! :r I'd love to hear the origin of that one.
Here's a couple:
Dumb as a bowl of hair.
Slower than molasses in the wintertime.
What a Nickerson.
Crazier than a shithouse rat.
elderboy02
06-12-2013, 09:09 AM
Harder to find than teeth on a hen.
czerbe
06-12-2013, 09:10 AM
Going down like a prom date
Serious as a heart attack
AdamJoshua
06-12-2013, 09:11 AM
Lights are on but nobody's home.
A couple cards short of a full deck.
Not the brightest bulb in the box.
Has a face for radio.
Hockey Specific:
I'd trade ________ for a bag of pucks.
sevans105
06-12-2013, 09:12 AM
Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Better than a peck on the head with a sharp rock
(Grandpa was a bit of a pessimist.)
Couple Fries short of a Happy Meal.
She looks like 40 miles of Bad Road.
MajorCaptSilly
06-12-2013, 09:18 AM
Sillier than MCS
The lights are on but the furnace filter needs replaced
Dumber than a box of boxes
More uncomfortable than Jerry Springer in a room with normal people
As supercilious as John Mayer
MCS
ColdCuts
06-12-2013, 10:33 AM
This'll kill a couple hours if you let it.
http://www.idiomconnection.com/
Garbandz
06-12-2013, 10:46 AM
older than dirt
dumber than dirt
scarcer than hens teeth
slicker than s**t on a pump handle
tighter than Dick's hatband
useless as tits on a bull
useless as buttons on a beer barrel
hot as a $2 pistol
jjirons69
06-12-2013, 11:33 AM
Crazy as a $hithouse rat (can't believe I forgot that one)
Also used tight as Dick's hatband (just don't know where that one comes from, either)
Wound tight as an 8 day watch (my dad used to say that)
Hard as times in the 40s (he's said that a lot, too)
Rode hard and put up wet
MrClean
06-12-2013, 11:47 AM
Slicker than snot
Like a monkey f'ing a football
Blak Smyth
06-12-2013, 11:53 AM
Like she was hit in the face with a hot sack of nickels
ColdCuts
06-12-2013, 11:55 AM
Crazy as a rat in a round room.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
mosesbotbol
06-12-2013, 11:56 AM
Tougher than a 50 cent steak
All hat no cattle
A little sweet in the seat
Garbandz
06-12-2013, 12:02 PM
A face like a bag of door knobs
he looks like he got beat with an ugly stick
got an ass like a government mule
gonna beat you like a rented mule
kelmac07
06-12-2013, 12:30 PM
Happy as a whore with a bag full of dildos.
icehog3
06-12-2013, 12:58 PM
My butt itches.
Islayphile
06-12-2013, 01:00 PM
Tighter than a virgin on prom night
czerbe
06-12-2013, 02:39 PM
Sweating like a whore in Church
BHalbrooks
06-12-2013, 04:24 PM
"Gone like a Homecoming Queens virginity on Prom night"
My Dad also loves to say, "I wouldn't **** you, you're my favorite turd."
This thread brings a lot of memories up :tu
14holestogie
06-12-2013, 04:30 PM
I don't know whether to sh1t or wind my watch.
pnoon
06-12-2013, 04:40 PM
About as funny as a fart at a funeral.
He dropped a proverbial turd in the punch bowl.
You're rude and unattractive.
AdamJoshua
06-12-2013, 04:44 PM
LOL @ #3
Bout as funny as a heart attack.
Doesn't know his ass from his elbow.
Doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
pnoon
06-12-2013, 04:47 PM
Put the shovel down, Chief.
Coach Deg
06-12-2013, 06:03 PM
This isn't Rocket surgery.
BHalbrooks
06-12-2013, 06:30 PM
You're rude and unattractive.
Favorite :tu
forgop
06-12-2013, 06:34 PM
Had a shop teacher that used several, but one that remains:
Roller skating with a heard of water buffalo
markem
06-12-2013, 06:45 PM
you don't know ch!t from shinola
don't go gallivanting off now
put that in your pipe and smoke it
caviar dreams on a fishmongers wage
he went ash over tea kettle
Subvet642
06-12-2013, 10:06 PM
"Gone like a Homecoming Queens virginity on Prom night"...
I just say: Off, like a prom dress.
I also like "Crap-tacular".
Chainsaw13
06-13-2013, 04:21 AM
A couple of my dad's favorites.
That'll put lead in your pencil.
You're full of piss and vinegar.
jjirons69
06-13-2013, 06:29 AM
Had our weekly men's meeting last night and I actually paid attention to what was being said. Tons of them thrown out.
First off talking about Viagra prescriptions (one of the guys HAD to elaborate) -
Hard as ten dollars worth of jawbreakers.
So hard a cat couldn't scratch it.
Couldn't turn the skin on it with a Sears wrench.
Others:
Happy as a mule eating briars.
Gotta pi$$ like a Russian racehorse.
Happy as a clam at high tide.
$20? I'd pay $20 to see a monkey f*ck a football.
Whip you like a red-headed stepchild.
So hungry I could the a$$ out of a Raggedy Ann Doll.
Does a cat have a climbing gear?
If? If my aunt had nuts she'd be my uncle.
Also the word $hit has tons of meanings:
Dumb as...
Hot as...
Cold as...
Drunk as...
The list goes on and on.
kelmac07
06-13-2013, 06:30 AM
So hungry I could eat the a$$ out of a dead horse.
Tio Gato
06-13-2013, 07:36 AM
So hungry I could eat the south end of a north bound cow.
jjirons69
06-13-2013, 08:01 AM
Pissing up a rope.
Frogstrangler outside (raining hard)
Raining like pouring pi$$ out of a boot on a flat rock.
Can't find his a$$ with both hands.
Weak as a kitten.
You might? Mites are on a chicken's a$$.
kugie
06-13-2013, 08:27 AM
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Not the brightest bulb on the tree.
Uglier than a bag of farts.
I use this one all the time with my daughter.
"You're so pretty"
kugie
06-13-2013, 08:29 AM
Sweating like a whore in church
AdamJoshua
06-13-2013, 08:32 AM
Your sister smokes corn silk.
Your sister drives a pickle wagon.
(both from a 1940s porky pig cartoon)
Stevez
06-13-2013, 08:36 AM
About as useless as a puppy with two peters. (City Slickers) Still love that one.
That'll put hair on your B@lls
Brian D.
06-13-2013, 11:27 AM
"So ugly she'd make a freight train take a dirt road"
"It don't TAKE all kinds, son, we just GOT all kinds!" (A friend's dad used to say that in reply to "Well, it takes all kinds.")
shilala
06-13-2013, 11:47 AM
Busier than a cat covering sh1t on a hot tin roof.
Like trying to stick a wet noodle up a wildcat's ass.
Don't know if your ass is punched or bored.
Hard as a diamond in an ice storm.
Simple1
06-13-2013, 02:23 PM
About as sharp as a bowling ball....
A few fries short of a happy meal....
Looks like a goat rodeo..
We're off like a herd of turtles.
Not the sharpest hoe in the row.
As bright as a bag of rocks.
jjirons69
06-13-2013, 04:21 PM
Like trying to herd cats.
A long row to hoe.
Folded like a cheap suit.
Be on you like white on rice.
jjirons69
06-14-2013, 06:22 AM
Heard and said more last night:
Nutty as a fruit cake.
Dry as a popcorn fart.
She's got snakes in her head.
Cool as a cucumber.
Dead as a doornail.
Dead as Abraham Lincoln.
AdamJoshua
06-14-2013, 10:48 PM
Hotter than the handle on the gates of Hell.
AdamJoshua
06-15-2013, 10:50 AM
Down in the dumps.
jjirons69
06-17-2013, 10:24 AM
Thick as the hair on a hog's back.
Manners of a hyena.
Cute as a button.
Ray Charles could see that.
If it was a snake it would have bitten you.
ColdCuts
06-17-2013, 11:42 AM
I use this one all the time. Don't know where I picked it up...
Come hell or high water.
Steve
06-17-2013, 11:58 AM
Slicker than snot on a door knob
Moose6026
06-17-2013, 12:55 PM
Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Colder than a witche's t*t in a brass bra.
It's raining like a cow p*ssing on a flat rock.
Hotter than a whore on dollar night.
Worthless as a poop flavored lollipop.
Dumber than a stump.
Nuttier than squirrel turds.
To list a few. I love this thread
TXRebel
06-17-2013, 03:21 PM
More confused than a newborn in a topless bar.
$h!t or get off the pot.
You have to be 10% smarter than what you are working on.
jjirons69
07-01-2013, 09:16 AM
Want in one hand and chit in the other and see which one fills up first.
Steve
07-01-2013, 09:37 AM
Want in one hand and chit in the other and see which one fills up first.
Was (and is) one of my dad's favorites!
My first sargent walked past me and a buddy of mine coming into the chow hall and said
"It'd take a full house to beat THIS pair." I always thought that was the best freaking line.
The military seems to be the birthplace of the wildest ones.
kansashat
07-01-2013, 11:40 AM
Dense as pound cake.
Like fighting the Chinese army.
Hard as pushing chickens in a ditch.
Like a monkey peeing off a cliff...little bit go a long way.
Lower than whale $hit.
Went to $hit & the pigs ate ya.
Fell to the bottom of the pond & the catfish/carp ate ya.
Beat you like corndog batter/pancake batter/a rug.
Beat you til you smell like onions.
Dave128
07-01-2013, 12:06 PM
Sorry if these are repeats, I didn't read the entire thread:
You look like a bag of smashed a$$holes.
More frustrated than a moth in a light factory.
I got this one so many times from my Mother..."You'd better straighten up and fly right"
And my grandmother, never to be outdone, "There's two kinds of Smart: Smart and Smart Alec".
I was the second one every time that would be forced out of her mouth.
jjirons69
08-28-2013, 06:32 AM
Nervous as a cat in a room full of rockers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1Jz3IJCo8
jjirons69
01-23-2014, 06:43 AM
Got some appropriate ones:
Colder than a witches caress.
Colder than a landlords heart.
Colder than a room full of ex-wives.
Colder enough to freeze the nuts off the Guy Lombardi bridge.
Cold as a mother-in-law's kiss.
Colder than a welldigger's ass.
CoffeeWaterBeer
01-23-2014, 10:06 AM
Old kitchen manager in a restaurant I used to work at used to say:
"Boy, you look like a 3 legged cat trying to bury turds on a frozen pond."
shark
01-23-2014, 06:36 PM
You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.
Standing out like a turd in the punch bowl.
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