What have you not heard in years? Old sayings

[Dasani]

Ok well I spoke to my Mom this morning and she is so different from when I was 18.(10years ago) Well after the conversation was over, I wanted to think of something that she will never say to my Dad or about my dad. (And that was hard.. lol)

So it gave me a ideal for an old sayings album. (1-day!)

So what is an old saying that you have not heard in a while?

Me.. well I came up with:
You old sorry bastard!(lol)
(*Bastard=
1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
2. Slang. a. a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person.)

[HoneyRose]

"When I was knee-high to a grasshopper..."

It seems to have been replaced by "When I was young, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth..." which isn't as picturesque.

[Dasani]

Ok... well I have not heard anyone say
"Practice what you preach" in Along time.

[cookie man]

When I was a toddler crawling around the house, my Dad would call me a "potlicker". Years later when my daughter was born, upon seeing her for the first time, he called her "perch lips"...we didn't name her that though.
As far as old sayings not heard nowdays...

"Don't take any wooden nickels."
"I'll give you something to cry about"
"I'll tan your hide"..a lot of violence in the family.
"If Johnny jumped off a bridge would you jump too"
"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water"
"A little work won't kill you"
"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched"
"Every dog has his day"
"The early bird gets the worm"
"I'm gonna wash your mouth out with soap"
"Please, Thank you, Yes Ma'am, Yes sir".

and on and on...but I do like how the "golden rule" has evolved to "what goes around comes around".

[Dasani]

lol... cookie man you are great.

How about..
You ain't got a pot to piss in.
Or a back door to throw it out off.

[OldGrump]

I used to work with a guy whose favorite expression when denouncing someones abilities was "He's about as worthless as tits on a boar hog".

I always contemplated the confusion that would cause the poor animal.

[Dasani]

*shaking my head* lol
I have to go in this big head of mine... ok I thought of more!
I got...
F*ck me in the a*s running.
Oh and... you got a wild hair stuck up your a*s.

[cookie man]

How about some old Nigerian folk sayings you don't hear anymore...

An Owl farted and demanded to be praised by his kinsmen, they mocked him that it is not right to dance to an abomination. (In Igbo Language: Ikwikwi nyuru ahuru si umunna ya kwere ya egwu, ha si ya "tufia" anghi ekwere ihe ojoo egwu) - Jude Ezedike

He who wrestles with a gorilla will find his back dusty. - Jude Ezedike

When the cock is drunk he forgets about the hawk.

Do not tell the man that is carrying you that he stinks

One cannot run away from his behind.

It takes a whole village to raise a child.

As a crab walks,so walk its children

"If you want to swallow a mango seed, you first of all calculate the diameter of your anus."

He, who marries a woman only for her beauty, has ignored a major part of what makes a woman.

He, who marries a beauty, marries trouble

and on and on...

[Dasani]

Damn cookie man ... I have to keep up!
Ok ... When the old folks was mad, they would say
"The only thing standing between us is air & opportunity". lol

[Texas Contrarian]

Want some old sayings?

Click here for lots of 'em!

And here for the origin of a number of them.

[Dasani]

Just so happen, I was typing and started to sound like my mom.
She use to say "I be Damn"....
who know I would remember so much.

[Dasani]

lol.... another one I can't forget is...
Don't count your money, till you get it.
*shaking my head*

[Dasani]

Well I have not heard...

"Rise and shine"...

[DFK Hunter]

Good nite, sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite.

But thanks to the EPA, bed bugs are making a comeback.

[ElisabethWhispers]

"Why he's just as cute as a speckled pup!"

I've actually said this and made a man giggle. (It was true, though!)

Elisabeth