Ich bin ein Berliner

[FistFullaRoux]

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

This was a line in a song by Jellyfish. The name of the album? Spilt Milk. Which you cannot cry over (I think I just gave my English teacher an aneurism).

[jsolomon]

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

My old boss that we called "Saint Anne the Decapitator" always said that when she was finding yet another way to *ahem* cut the fat.

[Lone Star]

HE/SHE's so ugly they fed em bisquits with a slingshot.

HE/SHE's so sorry they had to tie a porkchop around their neck so the dog would play with em.

(Bless his/her heart!)

I'm gonna <insert whatever here> if it hairlips every cow in Texas.

(I have heard this one since I was young and it still makes no sense. It is useful for driving Europeans crazy.)

I always heard it: "If it harelips the govenor".

One of my Grannys favorites :

"We've got enough here to feed Coxey's army"

[Pan]

Which you cannot cry over (I think I just gave my English teacher an aneurism).

Your English teacher would never up with that put????

[Mabelline]

WHEN PIGS FLY!

[tommy]

having your cake and eating it too.

well i would *hope* so.

[docsconz]

"That's the way the hog ate the collards."

Meaning? Some of you have to translate your regional expressions for us Northeasterners.

And Sconz, I've never heard "Lettuce alone without dressing," but I figure I know what it means - maybe sort of like the "One Meatball" in the song of the same name (with no potatoes, no tomatoes, and no bread).

It's better (or not ) when said aloud.

[docsconz]

"Pues me dio' calabazas" is an idiom that literally translates to "She gave me pumpkins", but means "I got the old heave-ho".

[Mabelline]

Hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

The early bird gets the worm.

From soup to nuts.

That's a fine kettle of fish.

[sparrowgrass]

"I've got a goose to pick with you, and you better bring a basket for the feathers"

means that you are in way deep trouble, we are gonna get to the bottom of it, and it might take a while.

I always heard "how the hog ate the gum boot", meaning something was talked over endlessly, as a hog would chew and chew and chew to eat a piece of rubber.

Not exactly food related, but a good piece of ground (farm field) is referred to as "rich as 3 feet up a bull's ass."

[Mabelline]

Those are great!!

I'm so hungry my stomach's gnawing on my backbone.

Also a nonfood one but one of my favorites when confronted with a whiner: " You'd bitch if you were hung with a new rope."

[Pan]

Speaking of picking things, there's always "I've got a bone to pick with you."

And here's another:

"Neither fish nor fowl."

[FistFullaRoux]

The early bird gets the worm.

My version of that is, "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

[Line Cook]

"Who cut the cheese?"

And I apologize in advance for this one:

"Who put out the garbage fire with asparagus piss?"(Walk inside the Yoshinoya Beef Bowl in Los Angeles and you'll know what I'm talkin' about)

[Mabelline]

Like a lamb to the slaughter.

About as welcome as ants at a picnic.

Just fell off a turnip wagon.

Smells so bad it'd knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.

[FistFullaRoux]

I'm noticing that most of these are clihes. My english professor always told me to avoid cliches like the plague. Here are some more...

Going nuts

Going bananas

Being cheesy

Apple of my eye

Candy Apple Red

That car is cherry

The paint is orangepeeled

Got him right in the melon

Quit trying to butter me up

To old to cut the mustard

Cauliflower ear

Mutton chops

Flat as a pancake

A big beefy guy

Something's fishy

Champagne wishes and caviar dreams

20 lashes with a wet noodle

John Tesh (for exapmle) is whitebread

The chitlin circuit

That's corny

Now that I have officially beaten this dead horse...

[elyse]

Get yer meaty paws offa me...?

[jsolomon]

I'm not too old to cut the mustard; I just can't get the jar open by myself.