OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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My dad use to have this saying when I would ask him how he was doing. I never understood it but knew it meant all was fine. Toward the end of his life I asked him where the saying came from. He told me when he was hoboing during the depression to get money for mom and my oldest sister he would see a fire off in the woods from the track. He would always carry a can of corn or something similar to add to the pot; if you didn't you wouldn't eat. When approaching the cook he would ask "whats in the pot?" If the answer was "everything's chicken but the gravy" he would offer his can of corn for the stew, sit and eat. If the answer was "I don't know or possum etc". he would move on to the next fire he could find and hope for the reply of "everything's chicken but the gravy". :D
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There is a lot of good old sayings out there that are being forgotten. I've never heard that one, I like it. If you would ask my dad how he was doing he would say "finer then frog hair" If he was felling real good he would say "finer then frog hair split four ways and sanded on the sides" :lol:. That is mighty fine.
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I remember a few stories from my uncle, about leaving home as a kid during the depression, for the open road life of the HoBo. I think it would be nice if someone went around the country and interviewed enough of those old travelers before they all die out ,... and put together a book series like that teacher did with the Foxfire books on Appalachia.

Good post.
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My dad would say "rat feathers!" rather than cuss. A former gun dealer I know always says when I say, how are you doing? "I'm slicker than snot on a glass door knob." :lol: (Lets have some more.)
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My dad-- "going to see a man about a horse". His answer to my question, "where are you going?", before leaving for his weekly evening poker game with his buddies.
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My dad's two favorites were that "finer'n frog hair" and "slicker'n snot on a Louisiana swamp". Mine's "cool beans". Still don't know what mine means... but it sounds ok.

Granma's was "DONALD (dad), quit beatin' that boy (me)!" I know exactly what that meant! And looked forward to it ever time I was getting "taught a lesson".
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When my Grandpa was aggravated at someone he'd always say " He don't know fat cow from poor bull". (this was often directed at politicians) I don't have a clue what it means.
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My FIL came from MO and when asked how he was he'd reply fair to middling. danny
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Uncle Jack's fav.
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I can't recall any interesting old phrases, but for about the first 8 years of my life I coulda swore my name was "DAMMIT, BOY!"

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I had an old friend that when asked if he wanted to do something he would reply "might as well, can't dance and it is too windy to stack rocks"

Another old cowboy friend from west Texas when asked about the cold weather would reply "it is colder than a cast iron commode on the shady side of an iceberg"

My grandfather when faced with a fib would simply state "that dog won't hunt, want to try another"
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My brother used to say when asked "What'dya know", "It takes a darn tall indian to stand flat footed and sh*t in the back of a dumptruck." He had a million of them.
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Some good old ones are:
"When pigs fly"! "
"Gone to hell in a handbasket"
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When I was a teenager and was obviously going "out", mom & dad would often ask "Where you going?"
My typical answer was "No place special".
The response: Well, no matter where you go, there you are!
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kimwcook wrote:My brother used to say when asked "What'dya know", "It takes a darn tall indian to stand flat footed and sh*t in the back of a dumptruck." He had a million of them.

Another response to the "What'dya know" .......It takes a hell of a dog to weigh a ton.
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How steep was it? Steeper than a cows face!

How dumb was he? Dumber than a box of rocks!

How cold was it? Colder than a well diggers *** in the Klondike!

How sick were you? So sick I thought I'd die and was afraid I wouldn't!

How hard did he hit him? Knocked him into the second Tuesday of next week!

How lazy was he? So lazy that he didn't have enough energy to drive a pee ants gocart around the inside of a cheerio

How skinny was he? So skinny that when he turned sideways and stuck out his tongue, he looked like a zipper!

How rough is it? Rougher than a cob!

How smooth was it? Smoother than a babies bottom!

How slick was it? Slicker than a greased pig!

How sad were you? I was lower than a snakes belly in a wagon track!

How bad did it smell? Smelled so bad it'd make a skunks eyes water!

How gross is it? So gross it would gag a maggot!
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From my Uncle and Grandpa: I'm gonna box yer ears.

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From an old rancher down the road years ago- " He's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice". And- "I'm so hungry my stomach thinks my throats been cut".
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He's about as sharp as a bananna

He's about as dumb as a hammer

Gettin' that "fresh country air" whenever we'd get downwind of a stock pen

Life ain't no bowl of cherries

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Gen. Ellis W. Williamson on response to "How are you." "I'm fine but on a thin string." He died 3 days later.
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In basic training, whatever you were complaining about to the DI, it wasn't as bad as the greasetrap at the mess hall you were about to clean. Most of us learned after the first time.
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When seeing a curvy women walking..........."She's got more wiggles then a bobcat in a burlap bag"
"Slicker then greased owl sh**"
"Walking in tall cotton." Said when things were going good.
"He ain't got the good sense god gave a goose."
"Prettier then a speckled pup under a little red wagon", one of my dads favorites.



Recently I was at a customers and speaking to an old black gentleman and he asked how I was doing and I said "Fair to middlin". He asked if I knew where that term came from, I told him it was an old term used back in the cotton picking days to describe the weather. When passing another cotton farmer you would ask hows the weather and the reply, if the weather was good, "Fair all the way to Midland". He knew it because he had grown up picking cotton. Now every time I go there we stop and talk.

I remember several times as a kid dad would run into someone he had grew up with, and they would talk about the good old days and how good they were. When we would go on dad would look at me a say those good old days weren't all that good. Dad grew up in the depression and served in WWII. He liked progress, he said he didn't miss walking behind a plow pulled by a mule one bit, he much preferred tractors.
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I use my favorite at work a lot...

"Jesus can turn the water into wine, But he can't turn your whining into anything."
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I've always wondered how a comment about a spelling error came to be applied to any other ignorance.

"He doesn't know his *** from a hole in the ground."

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He doesn't know if he' sbeen punched or bored!
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From my dad: How're you doing? 'Bout as well as a pick pocket in a nudist colony.
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Hobie wrote:Gen. Ellis W. Williamson on response to "How are you." "I'm fine but on a thin string." He died 3 days later.
My wifes grandpa always said "I am livin on borrowed time!" and when you really think about it he was just waitin to go home.

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From the "grandfathers" Ain't got the brains, god gave a groundhog, To slick for sun rise{never understood that one}, Dumber than a goat or a box of rocks,

Ole Man had a bunch from the Navy :o

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If I was President, There would be : (A-Nash in every garage) (A-chicken on every nest) and (A-gun in every safe) :mrgreen:
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(How bad was it?) "Rougher than a cob, and twice as long."
(Can it be done?) "We're like the rabbit. We've jumped up; now we've got to run."
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My Dad always replied when asked how he felt, "Like an ox".
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Good evening all,
being born is Muskogee, OK, these sayings fell out of all of my aunts and uncles mouths.


The poor thing was "Ugly'r than home-made soap", or "homley'r than a mud fence".
Gloves were "hand shoes"
Cloudy out side with no moon was "darker than the inside of a cow".
Big dumb guy was described as "48 shirt, number 4 hat".
Not smart was "didn't know sh!t from brown rice".

And those are just the ones I still use,
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One of my favs" dont know stuff from applebutter " or What the sam hell...
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From my Daddy: "That's about as useful as tits on a boar hog"
"I was sweatin' like a French whore on Saturday night" (he was in the 101st Airborne in France during WWII!)
"He don't have walkin' around sense"
"He has more money than sense"
and a bunch more that slip my mind.

As far as "Fair to middling", that was an expression my Granddaddy used alot. I always heard it was a grade of cotton used at the cotton auctions. The grades were something like, Fine, Good, Fair, Middling, Poor.

From my Grandmother: "Ah Swanee!" or the short version "Ah Swan" (expression of surprise)
"Oh pshaw" (silent "p", expression of skepticism or you don't mean it)
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SmokeEater2 wrote:When my Grandpa was aggravated at someone he'd always say " He don't know fat cow from poor bull". (this was often directed at politicians) I don't have a clue what it means.

According to what I've read, it comes from Plains Indian culture.

Fat Cow times were the good times, with plenty of food, good weather, good friends, and good fights.

Poor Bull referred to the tough old bulls that were hardly fit to eat and referred to hard times, when game was scarce, food was short, weather was bad and enemies pressing hard.

Off-hand, I'd say your Dad meant,"That idiot doesn't have enough sense to know good times from hard times."
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I've picked up and used lots of old sayings over the years. As a kid, I'd rather sit around listening to the olod folks that hell around with my cousins so I picked up some pretty good ones. let's see what will come to the tips of my fingers now.

(How do you feel?) Like I've been shot at and missed, and sh*T at and hit. (if really bad) I feel like I've been shot at and sh*t at and hit both times.

I'm hungrier than a woodpecker with a headache.

That gal is so ugly they had to tie a pork chop around her neck to get the dog to play with her.

That feller is so ugly that when he fell in the creek there was a fish kill.

Uglier than homemade sin!

He's so sorry he'd make a preacher cuss.

I was born a day late and a dollar short. i've been falling behind ever since.

he's got more dollars than sense.

(When told something can't be done) never mind the mules, just load the wagon.

Cute as a button.

Cute as a bug.

That young'un is as full of hell as his hide will hold!
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Lots of good ones here! I actually learned the "sharp as a sack of wet mice" saying from Foghorn Leghorn. Who says you can't learn anything from cartoons! :lol: That boy, ah say, that boy's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice...
Nate C. wrote:(Describing illness or fatigue.) "I'll feel like I've been eat by a coyote and sh!t off a cliff."
I've always said I feel like I've been shot at and missed and sh!t at and hit. (Doc posted as I was typing. Oooops!)

He's not worth his salt - dates back to Roman times when soldiers were paid in salt IIRC.
Variation: He's not worth a hill of beans.

He/she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down

What's that got to do with the price of rice in China?

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When asked are you comfortable? I'm as snug as a bug in a rug.
When describing someone like Boy George, queer as a sea going frog.
When describing someone a bit slow, not the sharpest knife in the box.
My favorite is: cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!


Fair to middling is also used over here a lot too.
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"That plow won't scow" = It won't work or I don't believe it.
"Looked like two 50# sacks of potatos fighting." = Following the biiiiiiiig woman in the tight sweats.
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This is the one I heard about once or twice a week growing up. :lol:
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Fell over "bass ackards"
She's "built like a brick sh**house"
You look like you've been "drug through a knot hole"
That's "slick as an onion"
"If that ain't easy, lard ain't greasy"
"I'm tired-er than a one-legged man in an a**kicking contest"
We need some more "strikin' paper" (toilet paper)
That's "queer as a 3 dollar bill"
I'll take "a couple or 3 of 'em"
It's "colder than a witch's t**t"
"It's not that big around, but it's short"
Wiggling "like a worm in hot ashes"
I went "around my elbow to get to my a**"
"Two knuckles deep" (vigorously picking one's nose)
"A little light in the loafers" (means leading an "alternative lifestyle")
She's "fine as Queen Ann's lace"
He's "tall as a Georgia pine"
"It's hot as a match"
"It's hot as a 2 dollar pistol"
"It'll make a turd" (food that's good enough)
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a pine cone"
He was "bleedin' like a stuck pig"
He's "ugly as homemade sin"
He's so ugly we should "shave his butt, and teach him to walk backwards"

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(Describing a moonless night.) "It's darker than the inside of a cow."
(Describing a torrential downpour.) "It's raining like a cow p!ssing on a flat rock."
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Re: OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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Doc Hudson wrote: (When told something can't be done) never mind the mules, just load the wagon.

Cute as a button.
(When told something can't be done) My Daddy's version: "If I tell you a grasshopper can pull a wagon.....hitch him up!"

Which reminds me (his answer to "if only ......... had been different"): "If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his (butt) when he jumps."

Cute as a button. Daddy's version: "Prettier than a speckled pup."
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Re: OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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My grand mother had many sayings, I cant remember any of them. I really wish we would have written tham down.
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Re: OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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If you don't have time to do it right, you sure don't have time to do it again.

Never trust a man who wears a belt and suspenders at the same time. ( I have never understood that one, and I do wear a belt and suspenders)

Don't walk on thin ice unless you wanta get your feet wet. That's the same as, Mess with the bull, you're gonna get the horn.

Faster than a turpentined dog..(OK, some of you older guys will know about corn cobs and turpentine when the neighbors dog gets in the henhouse)

Prettier than a peach on a June evening.
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Re: OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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One of my favorites from my Grandfather that I do not hear anymore....

"If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree."

my Grandma....

"Cute as a bugs ear."

Both of these have to be said with an Okie drawl for effect.
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Re: OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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"it's like tryin' to pick ants out of the coffee"
"I'll tell you what living is. You get up when you feel like it. You fry yourself some eggs. You see what kind of a day it is."
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Re: OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

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1. I've worked in machining for 40 years. An old bull o' the woods type foreman would comment on excessively hard material as being "Harder than the hobs of hell." A hob is a cutter that cuts gear teeth.

2. A fastener that was overtorqued or rusted in place was "Tighter than Dick's hatband."

3. One bite of something really good to eat would "Make a rabbit slap a hound." Or as late country comedian Jerry Clower would say, "One bite would make a puppy pull a freight train."

4. Here's one my dad used and I never understood as a kid. For example I'd say: "The tooth fairy use ta give 50 cents for a tooth not just a quarter." Pops would say, "Well Useta's dead and his wife's a widow."

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Re: OT-"Everythings chicken but the gravy" (forgotten sayings)

Post by awp101 »

How about someone being "wound tighter than an eight day clock"?
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
-Mark Twain

Proverbs 3:5; Philippians 4:13

Got to have a Jones for this
Jones for that
This running with the Joneses boy
Just ain't where it's at
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