A lot of the younger ones I work with don’t know the meaning of many.
I mentioned “three sheets to the wind” and they wanted to know why I had said that. Told them it referred to a ships sails being loose and flapping wildly out of control and had a reference to drunkenness.

Care to share more that some of us don’t know?

Kid friendly.....

Profanity filter........

I got nothin', at least none I learned from my grandpas.

My old man had a jillion "old sayings" I remember them all, but the proper circumstance needs to happen before they pop into my head, lol

I once said "finer than frogs hair" to my wife. She looked at me like I was processed. She said frogs don't have hair. I said that's the point. We went back and forth for about 10 minutes before I gave up and walked away. She either gets it now or just plays like she does.

I never did figure out how many my grandpa wanted when he asked for a "couple three" of something.

It wasn't two, or three. I brought him six once, thinking math was involved, I got called a smart--- and don't remember that afternoon much.

We also used to say "leaning to Hazelbakers" when the wind would blow.

The farm down the road from my uncles was called the Hazelbaker Farm. So when the wind would blow he'd look out the window and go "The trees are leaning to Hazelbakers."

So now any time the wind blows we'll say it, even though none of us live near them.

Much the same for me my old man had a saying for almost everything. Many which wouldn't pass the filter here.

I do remember my grandmother saying about my constant jabbing.
"That boy can rattle like an empty cart."

Mac

My wife's Grandfather called her sister a bucket mouth and to this day I believe she is still earning this title.

When turning wrenches as a 17 year old ...my buddy was on the creeper under the car...

With his arm extended...trying to put the last bolt in the 4 speed transmission..

And was trying for 20 minutes to get the bolt in the hole..

And he was just about to give up...then I told him ..

Just put a little hair around it....

Heard that from an old timer....lol

My dad use to say when I was a young lad, "Son, you will be a man before your mother is." It took me quite a while to figure that one out. Or when we would go on vacation and on the road for some time, we would pass a large cemetary and he would ask me, Son, how many folks are dead in that graveyard?

My Father in law said that when in the Garage

Lol “all of ‘em”!

My Dad said " That Woman there is easier to jump over than to walk around "

or Two axe handles across

no idea of origins

ringy as a pet coon, dead as a doornail, bald as a cucumber, brains of a rock, can't tell applebutter from bull...., cold as a witchs teat, madder than a wet hen, sharp as a tack, burr under his saddle, chip on his shoulder, cant hit the broadside of the barn, double tough, weak kneeed, all hat no cattle, on its last legs, madder than a hornet, blind as a bat, tougher than boot leather, whip thin, hotter than a firecracker, slicker than snot, chatters like a magpie, dead broke, and drawing a blank.

My dad would say about an old carpenter in town, “that guy couldn’t put a cob handle on a file”.

MY Grandson is so confused by my sayings, most learned from my Dad or other old timers, lol. I have to explain them to him.
Six of one half dozen of the other.
Some people just talk to hear their jaws rattle.
Better chances than a one-legged man in a## or butt kicking contest.
Acting like a cat on hot tin roof
Whats good for the good is good for the gander
Kitty Wampus
Worthless as a dog that won't hunt.
Knee high to a grasshopper
Slower than molasses in January
Slicker than snot on a hoe handle
"chuckling" She looks like she got ten pounds of potatoes in a five pound sack.
Did you "Jew" him down?
Useless as t### on a boar pig.
It is what it is
Some days you eat the bear some days it eats you
Horse Hockey
I'll stop!

Oh one of my favorites: You know what a guy oughta do!

I heard it was two axes handles and a snuff box across the booty.

So slow had to speed up to stop.
So ugly had to tie a pork chop around his neck so the dog would play with him.
So bucktoothed could eat peanuts out of a pop bottle.
So ugly had to sneak up on a glass of water.
So ugly when he cried the tears ran down the back of his head.
So slow had to set stakes to see if he was moving.

Hotter than Tobys anus