coopah

Thanks, Ditter. I look for your "entries" each day. You add spice to the QB.

jarenie

I still use some of these, thanks for the list

damaquilts

I still use them too. :-) catty corner is one I use. I think that language use to be far more interesting then todays kids speak. I like the old sayings.

PBAUMAN

Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed it! I recognized all of them too.

dglvr

Wow some of them I've heard and some I haven't. I love this. Thanks Ditter.

J Carol

Well Ditter you sure do come up with some of the greatest posts ~ keep it up as I really do enjoy reading your posts.

solstice3

Wow reading that was like being home with mom and grandma!

LenaBeena

Having lived in many places I'm always curious about sayings. Where did they start, what is the hidden meaning, etc

My grandmother used to say "It makes the cheese more binding" if a job offer was sweetened with more money, or a better offer came in.
A person who talked too much was said to have "a well oiled jaw", a conceited person lived as "big me and little you", and a teen trying to act older was "going ahead of herself".
"Putting on the dog" meant showing off, "nose in the air" was being rude, "das machts nicht" in German as "that makes nothing" was to dismiss an idea as not worthy. But the one I always remember was "burning daylight". My children still say that when a task needs to be done.

Interesting sayings in different parts of the country and world make life interesting.

Fox

This has been fun. Most I knew, but some were new to me. One of the things my mother would say was "Don't stay out till the last dog's dead". That's an odd one isn't it. But what she told me it was was a something wives would shout to their family when they were going out during the French Revolution. In other words, come back home before the last criminal has to been put to death (guiotined-spelling?). I had to explain that to boyfiends taking me out on a date. I did a lot of cringing when she'd say that!

karate lady

The only ones I had never heard were 10 and 11. A lot of them I still use. smile, but then I am almost older than dirt. LOL