bearisgray

I've heard and used the same expressions.


Some more:

knucklehead

schmook

ninny

horse's patoot

horse puckies

Edie

How about:

Let's run it up the flagpole and see if it flies!

I only chew my cabbage once!

Oh, for the cryin' in the beer!

Don't do as I do, do as I tell you!

Hell's Bells!

Good Gravy, Marie!

If I can remember some Minnesota phrases, I will send them!

Edie

jojo47

:lol: :lol: I think almost everyone in MN calls it hotdish, but who cares? It's good food!

The sayings from your DH are familiar here, too. Some of them are a few I've heard my DH use, or even other family members/neighbors.

bearisgray

I'm beside myself (there are two or more of me?)

madder than a wet hen (a wet cat I could understand)

might could (I think this is "southern")

Edie

Coulda, woulda, shoulda

Take it from me (In other words, what I say is right!)

All hell breaks loose

Get up on the wrong side of the bed

I was off and running as soon as my feet hit the floor

"If" stands in the corner stiff

Keep your shirt on

Out of the frying pan into the fire

Edie

Edie

You mean "Mad as a wet hen"? Tell you a little story here. When I was a child and we went to visit my grandparents on their farm (hobby farm sort of) (bees, sheep, chickens, Guinea Hens, eggs, raspberries and potatoes and the famous Wisconsin Hickory Nut tree!). Anyhow, I was young enough to be stupid trying to be smart. 7-8! Well, Grandpa had taken an old tire and turned it inside out and made a watering trough for the chickens. On this particular day, I decided to teach the baby chicks how to swim in the water trough. I found out - chickens do not swim. Now if my grandmother was technically the mother of these baby chicks, which she had taken care of in the wash room off the house under the lights and all that and had just set them out to be in the pen with the other chickens to become layers and she could sell the eggs and found dead chickies in the water trough - it could be said of my dear sweet granny that SHE WAS MADDER'N A WET HEN!!!!! It probably came from her!

Is that sort of what you meant???????? Edie

Debra Mc

I always tell my son some of the girls he likes may be pretty but they are dumber than a sack of rocks. He also says "Lets say we did & don't do it." Here's another one- Goodnite nurse. Crapped in your own oatmeal today. Better to be pissed off than pissed on. They come in spurts.

Edie

If you are talking about dear old Granny, no she didn't. I just knew she was madder'n a wet hen because I sent her chicks to an early demise!!!!!!

I do now know chickens do not like to get wet and will deliberately stay out of the rain, unlike ducks, so perhaps that is where it came from.

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. (There's another one. I also spurt!!!!!!!) Edie

kwhite

Ohhhh My MIL would say about passing gas. "better out then in a mans eye" Don't know what that means but it is not a nice thought.

bearisgray

got a bee in her bonnet

got a hair up his ***

got a fart stuck crosswise

she's got her nose so high in the air, she'd drown in a rainstorm