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Things are peachy keen.

(My grandfather's favorite) Eat your veggies they'll put hair on your chest.

Hell in a handbasket

I sometimes say Christ on a cracker. Sure he doesn't appreciate that. Anymore than I might appreciate Mary on a mint.

My grandma's favorite....Jesus Mary and Joseph...slow down you're gonna get us killed.

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Jul 10, 2021 22:18:37 GMT -5 @marci said:

Things are peachy keen.

(My grandfather's favorite) Eat your veggies they'll put hair on your chest.

Hell in a handbasket

I sometimes say Christ on a cracker. Sure he doesn't appreciate that. Anymore than I might appreciate Mary on a mint.

My grandma's favorite....Jesus Mary and Joseph...slow down you're gonna get us killed.

I always thought that was an irish expression.

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Jul 11, 2021 1:42:49 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

Jul 10, 2021 22:18:37 GMT -5 @marci said:

Things are peachy keen.

(My grandfather's favorite) Eat your veggies they'll put hair on your chest.

Hell in a handbasket

I sometimes say Christ on a cracker. Sure he doesn't appreciate that. Anymore than I might appreciate Mary on a mint.

My grandma's favorite....Jesus Mary and Joseph...slow down you're gonna get us killed.

I always thought that was an irish expression.

Might be. I believe there was Irish blood on grandma's side of the family.

kjay Moderator Posts: 24,231	Odd expressions Jul 11, 2021 4:45:14 GMT -5 heatherly likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kjay on Jul 11, 2021 4:45:14 GMT -5 I'm Head Over Heels Again with heels lol...
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My nana Dublin born and raised used to say Mary mother of God and Jesus Mary and Joseph..
She also used to say I'll jump on your carcass..
But my dad always understood it as I'll jump on your carpets and he thought that was strange because they only had lino in the house!

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My aunt in Ireland uses the term Mary, Jesus and Joseph. Being an Irish woman this isn't surprising. She is also very religious: she was taught by nuns at school as a child. Those nuns were vicious. One of them smacked a girl's head against a wall: yes, really. BUT my aunt learnt a lot. She goes to church every Sunday. She has religious items in her bungalow in Ireland, too.

My aunt is definitely a decent person: unlike that nun!

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I went to an all girl convent school from kindergarten until 9th grade, no nun would dare to touch even my finger nails. When I was in 6th grade, my mother got my hair permed. One of the teachers told me my hair looked like Moliere's wig, in front of the entire class. I told my grandmother and the first thing she did the next day was to pay a visit to the principal's office, Mother Marie Jeanne.

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Jul 12, 2021 3:36:55 GMT -5 alsr said:

I went to an all girl convent school from kindergarten until 9th grade, no nun would dare to touch even my finger nails. When I was in 6th grade, my mother got my hair permed. One of the teachers told me my hair looked like Moliere's wig, in front of the entire class. I told my grandmother and the first thing she did the next day was to pay a visit to the principal's office, Mother Marie Jeanne.

My first few years were at a nuns school.

Liberals, they were not.

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Oh the nuns aka the holy terrors... I grew up with the knowledge that ' naughty' girls got sent to the nuns...

I went to a Catholic school for my first year and they scared the living daylights out of me...

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Jul 14, 2021 9:04:22 GMT -5 heatherly said:

Being tongue-tied... it's also a condition, but not literal still!

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tongue-tie/symptoms-causes/syc-20378452

I'm not tongue-tied but I am type-tied.

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Jul 15, 2021 2:28:24 GMT -5 jen said:

As Happy as Larry

That is one of mine, and it finally made me look it up.

It originates from a boxer called Larry Foley in the 1890s, before boxing was fully legalised. He won the biggest prize of about $150,000 dollars and a newspaper article in New Zealand had the headline “Happy As Larry” and the phrase stuck.

That must have been a lot of money back then.

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