Got any old or local expressions of....
 

amazement? My father in the UK used to say stone the crows a lot. I say WTF a lot to myself especially when I read the comments on this forum! I think an Australian one is struth(spelling)? Please enlighten me with yours.:):)Oh yes uk "core blimey".

" shut the front door "

not old but i like it

Get off my lawn!

"sacred feces!"

cheese and rice

"sacre bleu"

Well, bugger me!

Struth is correct.

My dad always used to say when he saw a ginger:

"red on the head like the d*ck on a dog"

Now there's a memory for you......

My mother's dad was a man that just never cussed. His strongest expression was "dingbust" and that was for when he smashed his thumb with a hammer.

One phrase we use for the occasional real estate speculator that comes in our office is "big hat no cattle" to describe the guy that is showing us plans on how he is going to develop a square mile of land and have fantastic plans. Then he want us to discount a $1,000 job so he can get started. We are always amazed he plans to spend millions of other people's money but he can't come up with a grand to get the process started.

Our favorite of all time was a guy that actually said he was going to build a ski resort in the Arbuckle mountains in southern Oklahoma. We had to try real hard to keep from laughing in his face.

Ach du lieber.

When it's raining and the sun is out, my mother would say. "The devil is beating his wife"
I still say it to this day. I think it's a local New Orleans saying.

Det var som fan!!

You don't know your ass from a gin whistle. A lot of cotton farmers around here.

Gilflirt. Pronounced like Jill or Gill. Kind of another fubar.

"F*** me dead!" seems to fill the bill for me at times.

From the Canadian Maritimes: Lord Thundering Jesus. Which is pronounced closer to: Lard Tunderin Jezuz

Ian

"Well don't that beat all"

I usually say "Holy moley!" or cursing "fck me runnin'". I have been thinking of reintroducing "jumpin' jeehosiphats" for old times sake.

rutsch mir doch den puckel runter..
= get off my back

mein lieder herr gesangverhein...
= dear men's choir..

Rika

dad gumit, shoot fire, peckerwood, all were in my dad and grandfather's toolbox for curse word replacement.

My Gran used to say "Well dip me in honey!". Her side of my Mom's family were Swede descendent farmers. Don't know if that's where it came from or if it had some hidden reference to my Grandpa:eek:. Don't want to think to hard about that....;) She also used "Well I'll be!". Figure that one out...

My Grandad on my Dad's side used to make up words but, a couple of his favorite expressions like that was "Bingo!" and "Sassafrass!".

Growing up in Ill. I used to use "Fuch me runnin!" a lot and "Holy Sheep Shyte!". "Jumpin Jehosaphat!" I heard a lot too. Don't know if I spelled it correctly. Like it matters..:D

Nowadays it's primarily "WTF!" with an occassional "Hot Damn!" thrown in.

"Slap your Grandma"

I use the following phrase to desribe one's personality: "He/she's got the personality of a pumpkin rotting in the middle of a field."

Others I use: "Tobett esszel mint errovel" (Hungarian for: use your brain more than your braun. But it sounds better in Hungarian.)

Another popular Hungarian phrasse is: "He comes and goes, like a fart in the bathtub."

At work, a German fellow often butchered English phrases, and these phrases have stuck. For example, "We can nothing do." is still used here widely, even though he is long gone.

Another phraes at work often used is, "Do the needful." IE: go the extra mile to get the request completed.

Some other phrases I use:
"Smell you later." (From the Simpsons)
"I am going to the bank to make a downposit" (Combo of downpayment and deposit)
"Really? No, REALLY?"

-Z-man.

My mom used to say "Well, I'll be dipped in $hit and rolled in cracker crumbs"

Do you work with lots of folks from India? My company has folks that work out of India for our night-shift and many of them seem to use "Do the needful."

Online, I'll use "Holy Carp" to keep things clean.

Mom: Oy gevalt!
Grandmother: You crumb-bun! (Ironically Grandma taught me the words @$$hole and fck)
An ex-gf: Ay de mi! (a bit odd for a whitebread girl of Italian extraction)

Boy howdy

I have no idea what it means, but it's used as a kind of emphasis.

Grandma - "That there chicken pot pie was some smooth peckin'"
Grandpa - "Boy howdy!"

LOL - your mom was a real charmer!

'Dumb as a stump' or 'What a sack of hammers'

Yep. I work in IT. :D

Another one that I've been using lately is:

"It's not like rocket surgery..."

I don't lose my temper often...

And I'm embarrassed to admit (swearing was not allowed in the house where I grew up)

When I do blow my top... with out thinking... out of my mouth comes..

"Mother f***ing piece of sh**"

At work when things are totally messed up I will tell my supervisor "the situation is not ideal"

At work when things are totally messed up I will tell my supervisor "mother f***ing piece of sh**". And he will often 1-up me.

All of the "old schoolers" here swear like sailors. Including the women. Behind closed conference-room doors, anyway. Nowadays among the rank & file they have toned it down a bit.

"Sweet fancy moses"

I used to hear this growing up in rural Illinois.
"Well, spank my butt and call me red."

My 18yr old daughter's newest is "Oh my sexy Jesus!".

My 20 yr old daughter now likes to try and shock the ole' Man with "Bollocks!"

Where at? I grew up outside of Danville.SmileWavy

"Ron Hedin says FIIIIIIIIVVVVVEEEEEEE!!!!!"

I'm sorry, you asked for local expressions...

Dude = greeting

Duuuude = disagreement

DUDE! = anger

dude... = disappointment

Dude? = inquisitive

Dahoode = flirtatious

"Leeroy Jenkins!"

Damned BB software keeps de-capitalizing my text...

leapin' lizards!

Stupidity is instantaneous.


Just watch COPS now and then..........