What is your favorite old "saying"?
10-20-2013, 08:38 PM
#293
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My mom would say "We are shi**ting in tall cotton" (when something good happened) When my granny would write a letter or when we would call and ask how she was - she always said "Fat and Sassy" - I still use that one.
10-21-2013, 01:13 PM
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Some of the ones I heard often growing up are: Money doesn't grow on trees, strike the iron while it's hot, a stitch in time saves nine, Nobody gets to pick out their face.
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10-23-2013, 02:30 PM
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I remember ne from when I lived in Texas....Bless her heart. You cold make anything sound nice if you added "Bless her heart" at the end. For example...She is the homeliest person I have ever met...Bless her heart.
10-23-2013, 02:33 PM
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[QUOTE=ShowMama;6352669][QUOTE=lillybeck;3027751]..."Clean your plate because there are hungry kids overseas"
My mother said something similar...."Clean your plate because there are starving children in China!" I never understood it, but it worked.
I generously offered to send my plate to China when we had liver and onions for supper once. I had to sit there and eat every bit of it. I didn't offer again....I hope the kids didn't starve because I sure wished I could have starved that night. Yuck!
My mother said something similar...."Clean your plate because there are starving children in China!" I never understood it, but it worked.
10-23-2013, 02:44 PM
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peace
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