Expressions

[kopenhagen5]

Ever heard of "Mess with me, you mess with the best" ?

I scare myself sometimes. (Think I scared someone away today) 

[kopenhagen5]

I think the expression is meant as - Otherwise it's too hard.

[esayaf]

A young man with his first cigar, makes himself sick and with his first woman, makes everyone else sick.

[moonflyte]

That skunt him back.

[the_great_she_elephant]

"Legs of chairs and pump handles." My grandmother's favourite saying if you asked her what was for dinner.

[imastawka]

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@djilukjilly wrote:

That skunt him back.

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   I just googled that word

[kopenhagen5]

"Legs of chairs and pump handles."

Dying to know what it means.    ?????

[esayaf]

Takes one to know one

[amber-eyed-girl]

[latina4621]

Unless your name is GOOGLE

don't act as if you know everything.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@kopenhagen5 wrote:

"Legs of chairs and pump handles."

Dying to know what it means.    ?????

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I have absolutely no idea, Kopes - and I don't think grandma knew either. I guess it was just a silly saying passed down through the family. My MIL's equivalent expression was "Bread and duck." (as in duck under the table.)

My dad had either heard of, or invented hinself, a character whose name was Rum-Tum-Apajoalla-Fistifyandigo. If we ever asked about him - who he was etc. - all dad would say was "He was the man who shot the wooden cuckoo."

His full name - on really special occasions - was Astadiabolo-Sacramento-Presti-Preswick-Rum-Tum-Apajoalla-Fistifyandigo.