Ich bin ein Berliner

[FistFullaRoux]

a couple of fries short of a Happy Meal

bust a nut

(one from an uncle) "She's aged like fine pork rinds."

The cheese just slid off his cracker

And many more, as soon as I can remember them.

[fifi]

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.)

[Mabelline]

The cream rises to the top.

Pouring oil on troubled waters NOTE: Not Pasta waters.

[Mabelline]

Oh Gawd- I got a picture in my head of all the cows in Texas suddenly going "MOOO-th" and saying yep, fifi's been at it again!

[Laughing Goddess]

"She's got buck teeth so bad she could eat corn on the cob through a tennis racket."

[tryska]

you've gotten yourself into another fine pickle.

[pete ganz]

He's a good egg.

[Mabelline]

Packed like sardines.

Sitting in the chicken coop don't make you a hen.

[docsconz]

Not worth a hill of beans.

[docsconz]

Bring home the bacon

[docsconz]

Lettuce alone without dressing.

[Mabelline]

The apple of my eye.

Peaches and cream complexion.

Dollars to donuts.

[tryska]

as my aussie friend would say...."i'm so hungry i could eat the arse out of a low-flying duck!"

[Pan]

"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).

[Pan]

Here's another:

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!

[Mabelline]

He's a tough nut to crack.

I love tryska's Oz friend. Now there's a hungry person!

Hogs eat collards very well, Pan. So it's kind of a wipeout, demolished, done deal.

I also love fist's uncle's "aged like a fine pork rind".

[elyse]

"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).

Yeah. I started not getting them a while ago.

[tryska]

I love tryska's Oz friend. Now there's a hungry person!

actually it was even funnier when she said it - her exact phrase in that wonderful accent was:

"i'm so famished i could eat the arse out of a low-flying duck. And i'm a vegetarian!!"

[fresco]

as my aussie friend would say...."i'm so hungry i could eat the arse out of a low-flying duck!"

The Canadian rendition is "I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end of a skunk."

[Mabelline]

Given my choice, I'd rather be real hungry in Australia.

[tryska]

*lol*

it's so funny, every time i think of that phrase, i get this image of her scanning the horizon for a low-flying duck and then just kinda clamping on as it flies overhead.

[hjshorter]

"She was all over him like white on rice."

In my family it was "I'm so hungry I could chew the a** out of a teddy bear". No idea where it came from.

[Carolyn Tillie]

A leben off dein pupick

Long life to your belly button.

(It isn't EXACTLY food related, however, I use it as a toast before starting a large meal, alluding to the expansion that will occur...)

[Pan]

Seperti budak makan pisang (like a child eating a banana).

That Malay expression is equivalent to "wet behind the ears." The best explanation I've gotten for why the child is eating a banana is that bananas are often the first food given to weaned kids.

[Mabelline]

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

HE/SHE is sourer than clabbered milk.

Edit to take out the one Docsconz already posted.

Edited December 30, 2003 by Mabelline (log)