Expressions my grandparents used

"Do your dead level best." I never inquired what they defined "dead level" as, but to my personal disappointment, it wasn't putting my head on my school desk and falling asleep. I mean, my head was level and by sleeping, I was dead to the world surrounding me. My grandparents had no sense of humor, I tell you. :ROFLMAO:
 
dusty said:
My mother would say " I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't".
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Mine too ... along with

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
"You'd complain if you got hung with a gold rope" ... (well, of course I would complain about being hung with ANY rope) I would say....

The only thing I remember my Grandmother saying was "you asked for it, you will eat it" when she gave me some of her cereal when I was little .... it was Total with zero sugar and I did not like it one bit. :ROFLMAO:
 
At supper, Dad would sometimes say....I think I'll have another slather of that delicious gravy. He professed to have an allergy to dairy products....But on a hot day in July, he could drink a whole quart of ice cold butter milk at one go. He all ways bought his dress shoes from the same shoe store here in Toronto, called Winestocks. He was a firm believer in the idea that if you kept a suit long enough, it would eventually "come back into style".

As a WW1 Canadian Army veteran, he all ways wore his 1918 Victory lapel pin even into the 60's, as a sign that "he had served Canada ". He called the other WW1 guys.....A bunch of old sweats. That was a high compliment in my Father's generation. JIM.
 
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