Favorite Geezer Idioms

1 Colder than a well diggers butt, (brrr).

2 The sun always shines on a happy heart, (its raining).

3 There’s a lid for every pot, (even he or she can find a mate).

4 Still water runs deep; (he or she is kind of quiet and slow).

5 Idle hands are the devils workshop, (keep busy, stay out of
trouble).

6 You can’t tell how far a frog’s going to hop by the size of its warts, (he or she is a little slow).

7 The nicest thing about dropping a brick on your foot is when you lift it off.

8 It’s like trying to sneak up on a critter with a baying hound.

9 It’s about knee deep to a tall Watusi in Burundi.

WHAT IF: If the hound hadn’t stopped to sniff that tree, he would have caught the rabbit, if the rabbit hadn’t stopped to scratch his big ears, the hound never would have caught him.

10 You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar.

11 If not now? When?

12 It’s better to be a “has been” than a “never was”.

13 If you’re over fifty and there’s something you desire to do, you had better get about doing it.

14 Never mind the rain; I think it’s going to clear up, clear up to our knees, maybe.

15 There’s at least one rotten apple in every barrel.

16 It’s hotter than a two bit pistol.

17 It’s colder than a prostitutes heart.

18 He (or she) is big enough to eat hay.

19 She was so skinny that if it wasn’t for her Adams apple, she wouldn’t have had any figure at all.

20 Fat as a pumpkin in the corn patch.

21 Ugly as a mud fence.

22 Skinny as a fence rail.

23 Dumb as a fence post.

24 Sick as a rabid dog.

25 Flat as a paupers pancake.

26 Slow as molasses in January.

27 Ugly as yesterdays’ sin.