Jane, I did not see it in the list but loved this one
143 - Uglier than a mud fence.

I don't know how old this one is but I heard oone of the younger girls at WM say it in the break room and I laughed out loud.  She said...

She's dumber than glue!

1053 - Clear as mud.
1054 - "He was the type of person who would give you a straw hat in a blizzard"
1055 - She's dumber than glue!

thorn in the flesh

writing on the wall

pearly gates

1056 - I'm up to my neck in alligators.
1057 - thorn in the flesh (one's side)
1058 - see the writing on the wall

Didn't add "Pearly Gates".  I've heard of the Famous Gates but don't know it as a saying/quip.

What about..Fine as frogs hair?

Re the mention of "Pearly Gates"....

I've heard "He's so sick he's knocking on the Pearly Gates"

1061 - "He's so sick he's knocking on the Pearly Gates"
1062 - Fine as frogs hair

Never heard that second one.

Isn't there one about a hen's tooth?

My father used to say anything that was hard to find was....

As scarce as hen's teeth.

A funny addition to that one was when I asked him why he said that he asked me if I'd ever looked in a hen's mouth.  I said, "No"  and the next time we were at the farm, he showed me what is in a hen's mouth.  The don't have any teeth.  But I found out later, they can peck pretty hard with their beaks.

1058 - see the writing on the wall  on post 844  was the last one before your addition Rammel.

Slip these two in there. I must have failed to post them, but they were added to my list.

1059 - Don't get yourself in a lather.
1060 - The bigger they come, the harder they fall.

Also add
1063 - scarce as hen's teeth

Sleep till the cows come home..

Jane, they sure can peck,once a rooster put the run on me but in the end, I put my teeth on him

Quote from: Amy on April 20, 2017, 06:05:41 AM
Sleep till the cows come home..

Jane, they sure can peck,once a rooster put the run on me but in the end, I put my teeth on him

#65 and a couple of others about the cows coming home.

Put an egg in your/ my boot and beat it.

1064 - Put an egg in your/ boot (hat) and beat it.
1065 - Stick that in your hat and pull it down over your ears.

living in an ivory tower

taking the lion's share

Put that in your pipe and smoke it is probably already on your list?
Or Cattywampus?

1066 - living in an ivory tower
1067 - taking the lion's share


101 - Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Cattywampus as in that shelf is cattywampus.  "catty·wam·pus. adjective. The definition of cattywampus, often spelled catawampus, is not lined up or not arranged correctly, or diagonally. An example of something cattywampus are the positions of the items on the top of a coffee table after a two year old has been playing with them and moving them around."

I think that Cattywampus is a word in the dictionary, not an expression or a saying

to meet one's Waterloo

Not sure if these were up before. When one thinks too highly of oneself --

He thinks he's the cat's pajamas, or
She thinks she's the bee's knees.

My husband had one similar to that but it turns my stomach every time I think about it so I won't print it here.  It's not bad, just inappropriate.  Those are the ones you never forget!

1068 - to meet one's Waterloo


#612 - He thinks he's the cat's pajamas, or
#611 - She thinks she's the bee's knees.

to be trigger-happy

This one just came up in conversations with my sister.  FYI: tgere us a white pig call a Chester...sometimes referred to as a Chester White.  My grandfather used to tell his boys (my father being one of them)

If you keep eating like that your going to get a bad case of the Chester Whites.

Meaning that overstuffed feeling we've all had on Thanksgiving.

take down a peg

sacred cow

How about when something is a bit tilted...

It's leaning towards funstance?

1069 - to be trigger-happy
1070 - Stuffed to the gills
1071 - take down a peg
1072 - sacred cow
1073 - Don't be a hairbrain
1074 - It's leaning towards funstance  (never heard this one, but---)

stumbling block