Funny sayings you've heard and your thoughts about them.

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When I was a kid, someone in my family was always saying some so and so (who they did not like) was crazy as a bedbug. This made me think. Are bedbugs crazy? Who checks the mental health of insects? Maybe the bedbug was just being a bedbug? I've never actually seen a bedbug.

Another example... As a teenager whenever I had a serious fight with my BF or a painful breakup, I could count on some adult saying, "There's plenty of fish in the sea." Yes, that's true, and in lakes, streams, rivers and ponds, but what does a fish have to do with love anyway?

Can you share some of yours?
 

When inclement weather was approaching in the distance with dark clouds and the promise of rain, the elders would say....'' It`s a bit black over Bill`s mother`s".

if as children we got into looking a mess after playing... we'd be told ''You look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards.''

if we laughed inapporpriately at something , we'd be threatened with "You'll be laughing on the other side of your face in a minute."
 

- My mom used to always say to me and my siblings while tucking us into our beds at night... "sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite".

I remember questioning her on it, even going as far as asking if there were bugs in my bed. LOL!

I always loved the saying though, and used it all through my babysitting years and when tucking my own children into bed for the night.

- Another one of my moms... "living the life of Riley".

I used to think, who in the heck is Riley, and what does he have to do with my life? ROFLMAO!

I've forgotten more than I remember, but my mom was the queen of funny old sayings. :)
 
Aunt Marg said:
- My mom used to always say to me and my siblings while tucking us into our beds at night... "sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite".

I remember questioning her on it, even going as far as asking if there were bugs in my bed. LOL!

I always loved the saying though, and used it all through my babysitting years and when tucking my own children into bed for the night.

- Another one of my moms... "living the life of Riley".

I used to think, who in the heck is Riley, and what does he have to do with my life? ROFLMAO!

I've forgotten more than I remember, but my mom was the queen of funny old sayings. :)
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Or living "high off the hog".
 
"Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean...."

Full version:

Jack Sprat could eat no fat.
His wife could eat no lean.
And so between them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean
Jack ate all the lean,
Joan ate all the fat.
The bone they picked it clean,
Then gave it to the cat.

(four hundred years old, connected with kings apparently 👑)
 
i'm thinking most have heard the expression "he/she drinks like a fish"... drinks to excess. well, my sweet SIL thought it referred to any excess so aa friend/neighbor who "smoked like a chimney" became someone who "smoked like a fish"!
 
"Nervous as a whore in church!"

"I got it bad. Not so bad I can't dance, but bad!"

"I was just entertaining ya. Didn't expect ya to believe me!"
 

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