("If you don't stop doing that,) I'll snatch you bald-headed!..."

Thanks, Aristus! Those southern phrases are so colorful!!

My relatives down south said that. As a child I tried to picture how that would work.

If'n ya pull hard enough, they gonna be bawld-Hayded!

Right, sure. We weren't convinced that the adults could pull that hard. We didn't test it though. We took it as a warning that something very unpleasant might happen if we didn't stop doing whatever it was we were doing.

"I am going to jerk a knot in you!"

and..

"You are getting on my last nerve!"

I was one of four kids,,,, Dad called us 'curtain climbers'.

perfect! Almost 'poetic'.

"Tan your hide" always made MY backside RED not tan. LOL!

samich and pop are ready.

AT TRUE burgh gal!!!

This was the standard response whenever we asked for a clue about a gift.

is a old drunk leaning against a wall, trying to take a p*ss. LOL!!!!!

We had to hurry up and get crackin' and then hit the road.

We knew what Dad meant, though.

"You want sympathy? Look it up. It's between shit and syphillis in the dictionary."

I snapped out of it right quick.

Thanks, catbyte. (I LOVE all your animal videos, btw. They warm and delight me each day. )

so "fiddlesticks" was her go-to instead.

(And of course, it does bring to mind the "Fiddle Dee Dee" that danced out of Scarlett O'Hara's mouth. )

"costs like smoke" (it rises high)
or
High as a cat's back

smack someone upside the head

tight as Dick's hatband (no one ever knew who Dick was or why his hat was so tight)

(Though dick's hatband WOULD be a compliment if it was dick's jockstrap. LOL!!)

hit the road, strike the pavement...

LOL!!!

If he was ready to leave somewhere, he'd tell us, "Head 'em up, and move 'em out!"

Frankie Lane!!
"Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in, cut 'em out
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in rawhide…"

“I wouldn’t wear that to a worm wrassel.”(wrestle)

That's one of the cutest phrases I've ever heard.

The "wrassel" has a hint of the Clampets of The Beverly Hillbillies to it.

Also, Kennywood’s open” meaning the zipper on your pants is down .

Meaning, outta gas is temporary, outta oil is forever.

ms liberty. Hint of the Jedi in them.

"Ein Hund von jedem Dorf!" is a phrase my German grandfather used. It literally means "a dog from every village." I think it is more commonly said "aus jedem Dorf ein Hund."

We understood it to mean that our clothes, our rooms, our toys, etc. were in a mess.

A "schweinhund" no doubt! (I;ve always preferred a 'lived in' look myself.)

she said , “Hells bells and little fishes”! When my older sister was in high school, she started wearing heavy black eyeliner on her eyelids and under her eyes. My mom couldn’t talk her out of it so she said, “Your eyes look like two burnt holes in a blanket.” My dad didn’t swear but if he said , “Oh, Thunder!!!” we knew he was upset. A friend told me that when his dad came in to wake him and his brother up in the morning he would say, “Turn loose of your cocks and grab your socks “.

Those are great!

was a fun and colorful character. Some of his sayings always made us giggle when we were kids even if we didn’t quite understand all of them at the time: Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs; nervous as a whore in church; colder than a witch’s tit; slicker than snot on a doorknob. My mom’s expressions of surprise were “Sakes alive!” or “Lord a Mercy” or if mildly surprised it was “My, My, My”. Thank you for the idea of this post. Brought me back to lots of memories and fun to read all the responses. 😊

one of my cousins always said "Great stars and little fishes"