“We’re coming around the horn”…meant we were past the bad point and sailing into better water, or the job is over halfway there and we can see the end.
Bob
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“We’re coming around the horn”…meant we were past the bad point and sailing into better water, or the job is over halfway there and we can see the end.
Bob
Said for the rough sailing waters down around the horn of Africa
And that is some of the trickiest and wicked currents in the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
Bob
Probably not a problem for today's massive cargo carriers. But back in the day of sail and oar that stretch of water separated the sailors from the land lovers
Out of the frying pan and in to the fire.
Story of my life
Can't take the heat stay out of the kitchen
Homely in the cradle purty at the table.
You can stretch a duck's neck all day long; he ain't going to turn into a swan.
Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?
He done took the red off my candy cane.
Don't get higher than cutting okra or lower than digging taters.
Pretty good ones
Feelin lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut…
"Well I'll be dipped" VGG
Or as my dad would say, "Looks like they fell out of the ugly tree, and hit every limb on the way down"Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie
Can't get blood from a turnip
When I asked my grandfather why I wasn't catching fish, "You aint holding your mouth right"
easy come, easy go.
That and a nickel will get you a cup of coffee
Ugly as a mud fence
Well it ain't gonna fix itself
Day late and a dollar short.
That boy is as sharp as a bowling ball.
When God was passing out the brains, he was first in line…..shame he held the door open for everyone else.
He is a sandwich short of a picnic.
Slicker than deer guts on a door knob.
Dumber than dirt.
She could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence with them teeth.
Her Mama wasn’t much smarter neither.
A brick short of a load.
Her elevator don’t go all the way to the top floor.
My Dad said the 7 P's all the time
Prior
Proper
Planning
Prevents
Piss
Poor
Performance
Also - Like a cow pissing on a flat rock!
I’ve asked about this in numerous places over the years, never got any feedback. But my Dad uses one unusual phrase that intrigues me. Can’t help but believe it’s pure hillbilly. When he talks about someone assisting, helping him do something - for example, he would say “james HOPE me get the horses up”. ANYONE out there heard this?
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I have heard the old timers use hep as the pronunciation for help. Haven't heard hope before