From The Godfather
A USMC Gunnery Sergeant used to regularly tell me, “l’be been through more sea bags than you’ve been through socks.”
Never get in a pissing contest with a serious beer drinker.
My father often said, “Don’t get your meat where you get your potatoes.”
Thanks dad?
I don’t know if it’s an idiom, because I’m the only one I ever heard say it, but I’d tell people, “I’ve got work boots older than you.” and after a glance down; “I think I’m wearing them.”
I am aware of the contradictions and paradoxes of paremiology, but I’m just curious:
What does one reply to ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’?
“It’s not my dog!” ![]()
Don’t shit where you eat.
Don’t shit on my cupcake and call it frosting.
(Apologies for the vulgarities.)
How about:
Oh yeah? Just watch and try to keep up, oh young and foolish one.
Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want.