"My Stars and Garters!"

"Being a dog in the manger" - You dont want it yourself but you don't want anyone else to have it.

"Cutting off your nose to spite your face" - Saying "no" to something that you really would like, just because.......

"Wearing out your shoe leather" - Walking a lot.

"Take the bull by the horns" - Just do it!

"What's good for the goose is good for the gander" - What she can say when 'he' says something to 'her'.

"Don't put all of your eggs in one basket" - Don't depend on any one thing.

"Make hay while the sun shines" - Do it while you have the opportunity.

"I'm not broke. I'm just badly bent" - Only a penny in her purse.

"Try sleeping on your back" When someone complains that they can't sleep on an empty stomach.

"Pshaw" - The old timers said this rather than 'darn'

"If that's supper, roll on breakfast" - A reply to "Did you enjoy supper?"

"I didn't know they piled it that high" - A remark when seeing a really tall child.

"Penny wise and pound foolish" - Someone who pinches pennies and then squanders the dollars.

"Look after the pennies and the dollars will look after themselves" - Save your pennies and you will have dollars.

"A penny for your thoughts" - Said to someone being unusually quiet.

"Get behind me Satan - but don't push too hard" - Wanting to do something but feeling guilty about it.

"Small fry" - Children.

"You'll have your head in your hands to play with" - Threat to someone wanting to do something you disapprove of.

"Old man Can't is dead and he left a little boy named Try" - Never say can't.

"Handle that with kid gloves" - Be careful and/or be kind.

"My sufficiency is suffonsified; any more would be double superfluency" - I'm full!

"Poor wee lamb" - This was what some old ladies said when they saw a baby.

"Well, you just take a run around your collar and slide down your tie!" Ladies' comment to smart alec guy comments.

"Children should be seen and not heard" - Speak only when spoken to.

"Up the wooden hill" - Upstairs to bed.

"More hurry, less speed" - The more you try to hurry, the slower it goes.

"Take the bitter with the better" - You have to take some bad along with the good.

"Get your skates on" - Hurry up!

"Six of one - half-dozen of the other" - One is the same as the other.

"It's as broad as it is long" - It's the same thing.

"Don't bite off more than you can chew" - Don't take on more than you can handle.

"Waste not, want not" - If you don't waste, you will not go hungry.

"Scratch the mad spot" - Remark you make when you think someone is angry with you unjustly.

"Button your lip" - Be quiet.

"My stomach thinks my throat's cut" - I'm hungry.

"I'm pulling your leg" - I'm teasing you.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Really needing something has led us to many good solutions.

"There's a long drink of water" - Remark made when seeing a really tall person.

"A galloping horse wouldn't see it and a blind man would be glad to." - Something to think about when you worry about a small flaw.

"Slower than molasses in January." - Now that is SLOW.

"A watched pot never boils." - The more you watch for something to happen, the slower it seems to take.

"Put that in your pipe and smoke it!" - Remark made, emphatically, when you were trying to get a point across.

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" - It is better to take one dollar than wait a long while, hoping for two or more.

"Chewing the fat" - Talking.

"Use elbow grease" - Scrub really hard.

"Keeps a stiff upper lip" - Doesn't complain.

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it in your purse."

"I don't chew my cabbage twice." - Said when the person does not intend to repeat themselves.

"Adam's ale" - Water.

"Their right hand doesn't know what their left hand is doing" - When a company or person continually makes mistakes.

"He couldn't chew gum and walk at the same time!" - To do two trivial tasks at the same time. Used in negative phrases to indicate incompetence.

Busy as a one-armed paper hanger with hives! Think about trying to hold up all those rolls of paper, then you have an itch … and no way to scratch.

Busy as a one-legged man at an ass kicking contest! Not sure what’s up with idioms focusing on people with missing limbs, but that’s one busy dude.

So busy you’ve worked from can to can’t!

"I have "too many irons in the fire." - too much going on.

"Isn't 'that' a fine kettle of fish!" - Not what was expected.

"Picking up the pieces" - Starting over.

"Bending over backwards" - Trying your extreme best to do something.

"Jumping on the bandwagon" - Joining in.

"Eating crow" - Apologizing and taking back what you have said that turned out to be wrong.

"Tooting your own horn" - Bragging.

"Adding fuel to the fire" - To keep a disagreement of some kind going - usually intentionally.

"I'll be a monkey's uncle!" - I'll be darned!

"Stir their stumps!" - Hurry them up!

"You cant make a silk purse from a sow's ear." - You cannot make something beautiful without the right materials to work with.

"Take the bull by the horns." - Just tackle the problem!

"A new broom sweeps clean." - New things and sometimes relationships usually look great at first.

"There's more than one way to skin a cat." - There is always more than one way to handle something you are unsure of.

"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without." - This was quite appropriate in the 'olden' days - at least in many families.

"Take that with a grain of salt." - Don't be upset about it.

"A lick and a promise." - A little dusting today and a promise to do better tomorrow.

"Out yonder." - Outside, perhaps in the back field.

"So mad I could spit hot water." - Very angry!

"Chew the fat." - Talk.

"Wet your whistle" - Have a drink. (It would mean water, tea, juice, ginger-ale)

"Don't burn the candle at both ends." - Don't work day 'and' night; you'll burn out. You need 'some' sleep.

"Mind your P's and Q's!" - Don't be nosy!

"Not half bad!" - Good!

"Take the whole kit and kaboodle!" - Take it all.

"Keep your shirt on!" - Wait a minute!

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face! " - You shouldn't do something out of spite or revenge that will end up causing more harm to you than to the person with which you are angry. In other words, do not let your overreaction lead to self-harm.

"Beggars can't be choosers." - Be happy with what you can afford.

"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." - Don't find fault with something that has been received as a gift or favor.

"My stars and garters!" - Just another way of expressing surprise.

"That's really the Cat's pajamas." - Cool!

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

"Let's get this show on the road!" - Let's get on with it!

"The better the day the better the deed." - An expression used when someone had to do something on Sunday that they ordinarily wouldn't.

"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." - Your opinion cannot be forced on anyone.

"Putting your foot in your mouth." - Saying the wrong thing!

"I was knee-high to a grasshopper." - I was very young.

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Take care of things as you use them and prevent needing a major repair or replacement.

"You hit the nail on the head." - You are right on.

"Don't buy a pig in a poke" - Don't buy just anything. Choose wisely.

"Rob Peter to pay Paul" - Borrow from one place in your budget to pay something else for which you don't have enough money.

"Do you mind?" - Do you remember?

"A Bone to Pick" - Someone wants to discuss a disagreement.

"A bad apple" - One corrupt person can cause all the others to go bad if you don't remove it.

"Bad Egg" - Someone who was not a good person.

"Been through the mill" - Had a rough time of it.

"At sea" - Lost or not understanding something.

"Bee in your bonnet" - To have an idea that won't let loose.

"Between hay and grass" - Not a child or an adult.

"Calaboose" - A jail.

"Hold your horses" - Be patient.

"I reckon" - I suppose.

"Jawing" - Talking.

"Lower than a snake's belly" - An unprincipled person.

"Madder than a wet hen" - Really angry.

"Pert-near" - Pretty near.

"Scarce as hen's teeth" - Something difficult to obtain.

"Skedaddle" - Get out of here quickly!

"Sparking" - Courting.

"Sunday go to meetin' dress" - The best dress you had.

"Straight from the Horse's Mouth" - Privileged information from the one concerned.

"Wearing your best bib and tucker" - Being all dressed up.