A Jack Pot of Old Folk Sayings

I have published two articles of and about the Old Folk Sayings that I grew up with. I love these old colorful country sayings and hate to see them pass away. As I began I had to dredge them up from the depth, but after the last article I wrote, they began to come to the surface and now I have remembered many more.

I will now write them down for you and for myself so I will have a permanent list. See if you remember any of these. I'll bet you do.

1. I'll give you the long and short of it.
2. You've got a long row to hoe.
3. How's the weather up there?
4. That's enough to strangle a horse.
5. Dirt settles to the bottom but trash floats.
6. I'll do that when pigs fly.
7. That's a bigger cud than I can chew.
8. It's betwixt you, me and the fence post.
9. It's gonna come a gully washer.
10. You're a ring tailed tooter.
11. Don't buy a pig in a poke.
12. She looks like an old cat carrying a kitten.
13. Shut up your pie hole.
14. Wild horses couldn't drag it out of me.
15. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him.
16. I don't break bread with a jackass.
17. Go that way 10 miles as the crow flies.
18. The jig is up.
19. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
20. Don't toot your own horn.
21. He'll soon be talking out of the other side of his mouth.
22. She's playing possum. (Pretending to sleep)
23. She looks like she's about to drop a watermelon.
24. Don't play the fool with me.
25. Don't let him get your goat. (Embarrass you)
26. My pig wouldn't eat that slop. (A bad cook)
27. She's no spring chicken.
28. Look at him strut like a rooster.
29. The cat's out of the bag.
30. Get off your high horse.
31. You're as crazy as a Bessie bug.
32. Let bygones be bygones.
33. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
34. I ain't seen you since heck was a pup.
35. You can't make me holler uncle.
36. The two of them can't gee haw. (Can't get along)
37. There's not enough room in here to cuss a cat.
38. Still water runs deep.
39. I've got other fish to fry.
40. Don't beat a dead horse.
41. I don't give a doodley squat.
42. I'll be there come hell or high water.
43. Don't make me eat my words.
44. You ran that one in the ground. (Talked to much)
45. Don't bust a gut. (Get to excited)
46. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
47. She wouldn't say boo to a goose.
48. Don't give me that hound dog look.
49. The fat's in the fire.
50. You'd forget your head if it wasn't fastened on.
51. You can't see the forest for the trees.
52. That's a mouthful if I ever heard one.
53. I wouldn't believe him if he swore on a stack of bibles.
54. He's old as Mathulsa.
55. He has the patience of Jobe.
56. He's sly as a fox.
57. I'll be there if the good lords willing and the creeks don't rise.
58. He's into it head over heels.
59. She's so bow legged she couldn't hem a hog in a ditch.
60. Dressed up like a Baptist Preacher
61. She has on her Sunday go to meeting clothes.
62. He was flying down the road like a bat out of hell.
63. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
64. Don't get your drawers in a wad.
65. I'll turn you over my red checkered apron.
66. Old John Barleycorn will come and get you.
67. Come on in and put your feet under the table.
68. Come on to the table, we don't have much but you're welcome to it.
69. Come on in and take a load off your feet.
70. Ya'll come back and see us sometime.