Salty sayings

Courtesy of my Dad –

When someone dies, they’ve gone “tits up” (in mixed company “wing-tips up” – meaning the shoes, not actual wings).

When you’re feeling your age, physically or mentally – “The wheels are comin’ off the wagon.”

Trying to fix something that has already had consequences is “trying to close the barn door after the horse is gone.”

If you’re very busy you’re “busier than a one-legged cowboy (or Indian) in an ass-kicking contest.”

If things have gone well for you, you’re “sittin’ in the cat-bird seat” (whatever the hell that means).

If you’re expecting good fortune, you predict you’ll be “fartin’ through silk” – i.e., “If we win the Lottery, we’ll be fartin’ through silk.”

Trash-talk before family poker games: “I’ll beat you like a red-headed step-child.”

Oh, a “crazy as a shit house rate” is a standard metaphor in my family. In fact, I used the phrase on the Board yesterday. :slight_smile:

. . . Should be “rat”, of course. :smack:

Not a saying from the south, but from the north and it is also salty:

“You are so lazy you need salt in youre pockets to keep youre hands from rotting”

I’d rather sandpaper a bobcat’s ass in a phone booth that question you Ogre , but wouldn’t that be “Finer’n frog hair, split three ways?” :wink:

IANAS, but how about:

“A face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle”?

Some have already been mentioned but these I hear on occasion:
Slicker’n Owl Shit
Dumber’n a bag o’hammers
… a box of rocks
Stinking like a bucket of assholes
…was on him like ugly on an ape
… like white on rice
callin’ Ralph [puking]
It was like kneeing a gorilla in a phonebooth

Referring to any big ole boy: He’s big enough to eat grass.
Someone who’s flustered: He didn’t know whether to shit or go blind.
Someone who is tense: You couldn’t pull a needle out of his ass with a tractor.

Oh yeah:
Had a face like the back of a bus
[Morning mouth taste] like licking the floor of a taxi cab
She was like ten miles of bad road
Slapped him so hard his whole family fell down
If I want your opinion I’ll beat it outta ya

Whenever my grandma would start back-seat-driving, my grandpa would bellow, “Who’s bucking this fuzzard?” which would always send me off into a torrent of giggles. (I assume he switched the first letters to avoid my grandma reproving him for cursing.)

Not PC, but a friend of mine liked to use that line from *Blazing Saddles: * “Dancing around like a Kansas City faggot.”

This is probably the worst Southern insult I have ever heard:

Said with a condescending smile, “Bless his/her heart.”

That Sean, bless his heart, he just caint help it. :smiley:

Purtier than a two dollar whore.

Uglier than a mudfence in a rainstorm

If stupid was money, you’d be the richest man in the county.

To this day I’ve still never, not once heard that phrase used in the derogatory manner I’ve heard about here.
Not ever. My mom has said it for years as a term of sympathy. Although my fiance’ has some family steeped in southern culture (rednecks). I’m sure I’ll hear it some time.

Look at how I used it about Sean. :smiley:

She’s dumber than a box of hair… bless her heart.

He’s uglier than a mudfence in a rain storm… bless his heart.

If stupid was brains he’d be the richest man in the county… bless his heart.

She’s fatter than a ‘possum livin’ at city dump… bless her heart.

Oops, hit reply too soon. Here’s my contribution.

Uglier than homemade soap.
Dumb as an ox and twice as ugly.
Dumb as a doorknob (or, it’s like talking to a wall).
I’ve driven through Hell and half of Georgia to get here.
He/She thinks their shit don’t stink.
…couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
You look like Death on a cracker/eatin’ a cracker, or Death warmed over.
Well, take the ribbon from my hair. (An utterance of mild surprise)

I gotcha. I remember that big thread we had a while back (was that Sampiro who started that?) and never having heard of that before.

It could be as simple as me being too dense to have heard the connotation in people’s voices before. Still mystifies me.

Well, bless your heart… :smiley:

This is what happens when I leave the office for lunch.

Some variations on others I’ve read in this thread, but have heard expressed otherwise…

…beat him like a rented mule
…shit or get off the pot
…fish or cut bait
…subtle as a stick of dynamite
…ugle as a hatful of assholes

Bless your heart.