Odd expressions you've heard now & then

[JBR]

Fill yer boots

I once worked for someone out here who used to say that.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I once worked for someone out here who used to say that.
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I haven’t any idea what it means.
It’s apparently a Canadian saying ‘eh.

 

[JBR]

I haven’t any idea what it means.
It’s apparently a Canadian saying ‘eh.

For the person I worked for, it seemed to mean 'take as much as you want' of whatever.

 

[jimintoronto]

I once worked for someone out here who used to say that.
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A very common phrase in the Canadian Forces in the 60's. Along with.....Muckle down on that job. Meaning get on with it, right now. JIM.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

For the person I worked for, it seemed to mean 'take as much as you want' of whatever.

That’s a nice way of thinking about it.

 

[Buckeye]

"There's more than one way to skin a cat."

My apologies if this is a duplicate.

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I hate it when someone says "fixin" - - - "We're fixin to go to the store." - - - "We're fixin to come see you.

 

[jimintoronto]

I hate it when someone says "fixin" - - - "We're fixin to go to the store." - - - "We're fixin to come see you.

How about the expression...Let me get this done, real quick. Would the opposite be...I'm going to do this....Real slow ? A question, Why do you elect Judges, but not police officers ?

 

[Aunt Bea]

A whore’s breakfast was what my grandmother called a breakfast of black coffee and cigarettes.

 

[dilettante]

When I told my mother I was getting married she said "Burn your ass on the stove, you sit on the blister!"

 

[dilettante]

One of my grandfathers detested store-bought bread. He called it "foundry bread."

 

[OregonGuy]

Understanding "suck hind tit" Idiom: Meaning, Origins & Usage - CrossIdiomas.com
should it be "teat" ?


teat
[tēt]
noun

1. a nipple of the mammary gland of a female mammal, from which the milk is sucked by the young.
   • BRITISH ENGLISH
     a thing resembling this, especially a perforated plastic bulb by which an infant or young animal can suck milk from a bottle.

 

[OregonGuy]

She’s a fine lass

same as
she's built like a brick ....

 

[Twostep]

Try oopsy daisy.

 

[OregonGuy]

Whatever Floats Your Boat
later just "whatever"

 

[Mr. Ed]

Floats your boat, trips your trigger

 

[SamiD]

One that I have never heard before until I watched the series, Port Protection, is, "Son of a boogerless snot." I haven't figured that one out yet. I suppose a runny nose might be boogerless snot. Not sure what the son of such would be. Maybe just a nasal drip?

 

[chic]

You're cruisin' for a bruisin'. Meant looking for trouble. I haven't heard this in decades so I guess no one says it anymore?

 

[SamiD]

You're cruisin' for a bruisin'. Meant looking for trouble. I haven't heard this in decades so I guess no one says it anymore?

Yeah the boys I was around, also had itching for a stitching and aching for a breaking.

 

[JBR]

S/he's "always near the edge of the grouch cliff".

 

[Babs2u]

Once when I asked someone not to fuss about dinner the reply was oh we weren't fussing we were just talking about it. Fussing to them meant quarreling. I meant don't go to any trouble.

 

[JBR]

Once when I asked someone not to fuss about dinner the reply was oh we weren't fussing we were just talking about it. Fussing to them meant quarreling. I meant don't go to any trouble.

Hmm... confusing... different usages.

There was a line in an early John Lennon song: "life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend".

 

[jimintoronto]

I haven’t any idea what it means.
It’s apparently a Canadian saying ‘eh.

Ask your Hubby, who I think served in the Canadian Forces about that expression. " Fill your boots " It referred to really loading your tray at the line up at the mess hall. The standard sign was "Take all you want, BUT EAT ALL YOU TAKE " meaning not to waste food. JIM.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Ask your Hubby, who I think served in the Canadian Forces about that expression. " Fill your boots " It referred to really loading your tray at the line up at the mess hall. The standard sign was "Take all you want, BUT EAT ALL YOU TAKE " meaning not to waste food. JIM.

My husband who is ex military says it means ‘go right ahead.’

 

[ChiroDoc]

"The Whole nine yards". There have been a thousand explanations of precisely what it means and where that phrase came from. But after all these years the consensus of grammarians is that the "nine yards" part could be substituted by almost anything-- to mean the entirety of anything.
The whole enchilada
The whole shebang
The whole Marianne
etc., etc.