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Odd sayings you heard growing up?

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"I've known you since you were knee-high to a grasshopper"
"Well bless your heart"
"Go pick a switch"
"Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha!"
"I reckon he’s happier than a pig in slop."
"It's hotter than a half-fucked fox in a forest fire".

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"Eee gods and little fishes."

"It's enough to blow the grapes off your Grandmothers bonnet."

"I'm sweating like a black man at election."

"You're mixing your eggs and door knobs and coming up with eggknobs."

 

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'All jungled up.'

My grandma's (born 1902) many-generations-old pronunciation of 'All jumbled up.'

Doubtless an authentic Elizabethan voicing of it.

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