I say that one quite a bit also and I can’t believe how many people thought I had seriously kicked a glue-sniffing habit.
One I say around really close friends when they ask how my workday is or was: warning It’s extremely crude and imappropriate for the sensitive.
Busier than a whore with two cunts
Whenever a new family secret would emerge (come on, all families have them) my cousin and I would say, “We’ve got more skeletons than Arlington.”
My uncle, who was in WWI, had a variation of the “shot who?” saying. I tried a thread a while back to see if others had something like it. His was “shot who the razor?” (I never saw it in print so my version is really a “sounds like” and I have no idea how a razor fits in.)
There’s also the military saying involving a sentry and an approaching soldier:
Who dat?
Who dat say who dat?
Who dat say who dat when I say who dat?
BLAM
The last action may not be a gunshot, but could be some other response
I had a sneaking feeling I was answering about the wrong one. Yeah, the assholes thing is neat. I laughed long and hard on that one, especially in view of the fact that the cousin is rather prim and proper. That image clashed big time with her persona.
I use mayhap. I also used “on the morrow,” though people seem to like that one when I use it, and use it themselves. And I might’ve gotten it from someone. Who knows?
When affirming something I say “My hand to God.” I must have read this somewhere, but I’m the only person I know who ever says it – except my son, and he got it from me.
When it’s really warm weather, I say, “It’s as hot as a crotch.” Got that one from Auntie Mame.
And a gross one I picked up from my dear old dad (I’ve never heard anyone else but him say it): when I’m hungry I say, I’m so hungry I could eat the ass-end out of a dead kitten.
My husband tried to say it one time, but messed it up. His version: I’m so hungry I could eat the back-end of a sick cat.
“[Person} is dreaming in technicolor.” (used to indicate my assessment that person is being wildly unrealistic)
“Dollars to donuts, is going to happen.” (used to indicate high probability of x happening)
I’m told that I use a lot of unusual expressions in my speech, but I can only think of those 2 at the moment. I also like mayhap, but don’t use it when I talk to people.
A high school friend got *Soldier of Fortune * back in the early 1980s, well before The Simpsons premiered, and I remember seeing T-shirts with that motto for sale in the magazine. I always took it to mean “It’s not worth the trouble of trying to figure out what to do in this situation, so I’ll do something extreme to ‘fix’ it.” Kind of a Alexandrian/Sword of Damocles solution.
Quartz, do you think the phrase “Had your chance - muffed it” predates Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Do most Brits who use it nowadays know its source?
One I heard more than once or twice along the way, but really got a big charge out of when I heard my mother (who before she got senile dementia in her last couple of years would refrain from any off-color speech around my brother and me) describing how cold it was in her nursing home quarters.
IANAQ , but I have either only ever heard, or perhaps misheard it as ‘had your chance, stuffed it’. And I for one had no knowledge of any connection to the film before this thread.
