Everyday colloquialisms
 

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.

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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.

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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.

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What a Nickerson.
Crazier than a shithouse rat.

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Harder to find than teeth on a hen.

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Drunk as Cooter Brown.

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Going down like a prom date
Serious as a heart attack

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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.

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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.)

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Couple Fries short of a Happy Meal.

She looks like 40 miles of Bad Road.

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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

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This'll kill a couple hours if you let it.

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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

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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

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Slicker than snot
Like a monkey f'ing a football

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Like she was hit in the face with a hot sack of nickels

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Crazy as a rat in a round room.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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Tougher than a 50 cent steak
All hat no cattle
A little sweet in the seat

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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

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Happy as a whore with a bag full of dildos.

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My butt itches.

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Tighter than a virgin on prom night

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Sweating like a whore in Church

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"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

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I don't know whether to sh1t or wind my watch.

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About as funny as a fart at a funeral.

He dropped a proverbial turd in the punch bowl.

You're rude and unattractive.

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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.

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Put the shovel down, Chief.

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This isn't Rocket surgery.

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Favorite :tu

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Had a shop teacher that used several, but one that remains:

Roller skating with a heard of water buffalo

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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

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I just say: Off, like a prom dress.

I also like "Crap-tacular".

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A couple of my dad's favorites.

That'll put lead in your pencil.
You're full of piss and vinegar.

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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.

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So hungry I could eat the a$$ out of a dead horse.

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So hungry I could eat the south end of a north bound cow.

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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$$.

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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"

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Sweating like a whore in church

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Your sister smokes corn silk.

Your sister drives a pickle wagon.

(both from a 1940s porky pig cartoon)

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About as useless as a puppy with two peters. (City Slickers) Still love that one.

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That'll put hair on your B@lls

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"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.")

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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.

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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.

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Not the sharpest hoe in the row.
As bright as a bag of rocks.

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Like trying to herd cats.
A long row to hoe.
Folded like a cheap suit.
Be on you like white on rice.

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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.

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Hotter than the handle on the gates of Hell.