Several Punk Rock HR readers had excellent comments in response to my post about Robert Downey Jr.’s statement, “I
Colloquialisms at Work
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Three of my faves:
Cream and turds both rise to the top
That candidate really screwed the pooch
Every day here is better than the next
Okay but remember, y’all, that I live in Tennessee now so you have to say em with a drawl:
“Well, THAT dog’ll never hunt!”
and my favorite:
“You gotta put it down where the hogs can get it.”
Why are you gonna poke that skunk?
Okay, these are all classic. I’m working on my North Carolinian drawl, too.
My husband used to say, “Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one gets full first.” He also said “I’m busier than a three legged dog in a hubcap factory.” My personal favourites are, “If you’re going to be a turd, go out and lay in the yard” and “You don’t have to have a dick to be one.”
Oh, I forgot one from my SIL in Houston: “All hat, no cattle.”
I am pretty sure that my old boss coined the phrases “push back” and “one-off”. I never heard people use these before he did and now every where I go I seem to catch people using them.
As a disclaimer I was in the Army and while I was in Airborne School I heard one of are trainers exclaim after someone laughed at an unfortunate moment:
“YOU look like a retard in an ice cream store”
Probably not apropriate, but one of the funniest things I have ever heard.
My recent favorite is from a great former boss (not the one I shared with Laurie) who referred to our assistant with ADD:
“I would rather reign in a wild mustang that whip a mule.”
I had an old boss who didn’t get a long with a peer manager (she actually was snotty and had a big ego). He used to say “I wish I could buy her for what I think she’s worth and sell her for what SHE thinks she’s worth”!
LOL i love this post…
“That’s like tryna pick up shit from the clean end!”
“If yer gunna be stoopid, you better be tough”
This is an awesome set of comments. Thank you all. I’m going to collect these for a PRHR set of colloquialisms!
My dad was the king of colloquialisms. My faves:
Your not smart enough to pour piss out of a boot.
You’re nuttier than a shit-house rat.
From hell to breakfast (closely related to: All over hell’s half acre).
You’re tougher than a sack of wet hair.
I just heard these last night while watching Clean House Comes Clean:
Hotter than fish grease.
Sweating like Elvis.
My little dawgs just won’t roll up in these (referring to shoes that don’t fit/look good).
@hrWench LOL, these are awesome. I just heard, “A camel is a horse created by a committee.”
Up North it’s the “deer in the headlights” look.
In Arkansas it’s “He stood there like a mule lookin’ at a new gate.”
One of my favorites is that something isn’t “Rocket Surgery”…
I also like the George Clooney line from “O Brother Where Art Thou” where he says someone is “Dumber than a bag of hammers.”
From my BFF’s Dad:
“More wound up than a ten-peckered billy-goat”
Evil HR director affectionately referred to as the Wicked Witch of the West:
“It is what it is”
One of my mother’s favorite: Busier than a cat covering up shit.
Oh these are hilarious! I’ve definitely heard “one-off” before.