In a Pickle & other idioms that are often heard

"Happy as a sandboy"

Or alternatively

"Happy as Larry" (whoever he was??)

There is a third but it's too rude to post here....

And also...

"If I had a brain I'd be dangerous"

is it "Happy as a pig in *****"?



I've been known to say: I'm just happy as poop!

Too pooped to pop?

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I have always been perplexed by "You can't have your cake and eat it, too"

Like, B****... It's my cake! I AM going to eat it!

Most nonsensical. "More problems than Carter has pills."

Most laughing in "our" house.

"Lift with your legs not your back."

Dad and others cracking up laughing. Grandma and Mom confused..."what are you doing?"

"You said lift with your legs. Don't understand the purpose of lifting something up and down with your legs...butts on the floor not moving so why lifting with our legs not our backs?"

Two angry women. "You know what we meant and you stop encouraging her." Dad laughing louder.

"I don't know what you meant...Dad..do understand what was meant how does someone lift with legs not back."

Dad.."nooooo. Those meaningless sayings never thought show em what they are saying."

I knew if I did not lift with my legs and not my back, Mom and Grandma's upset words..your doing it wrong.

F you and the spotted pony you road in on.

All that and a bag of chips.

Do you know the origin of that saying?
It's from Carter's Little Liver Pills which were a humongously popular Patent Medicine.

we're having more fun than a wet dogs got stink.

You can lead a horse to water but nothing stinks worse than a wet horse.

Everything is fish to his net

Absolutely. I've been teaching mysefl German for several years and I can assure you I come across some weird idiomatic expressions, but of course English has its own weird ones, too. xD I don't think many idioms actually make any sense when you pick at the words used. I'd love to know the history behind idioms... why they mean what they mean; I find that stuff interesting.

My hubby made up his own along these lines...

"You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back you've really done something!"

Three (or four) sheets to the wind

the whole nine yards

All her geese are swans

I don't like the cut of her jib..

Never heard that one before....

"You're a bigger liar than Tom Pepper"

Followed by...

"And he got kicked out of Hell 10 times for lying"

If you've only got a hammer, everything's a nail.

"Getting down to brass tacks" (means focusing on the essentials)
"A dog's breakfast" (means a real mess)

My father-in-law was a merchant seaman many years ago and they used to call their straw mattresses "Donkey's Breakfast"

Happy as a seagull with a French fry

I LOVE that one!

Dog's dinner in English usage.

until the cows come home