Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 5)

Knee high to a grasshopper

You've heard the saying that every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time a mousetrap snaps, an angel gets set on fire.

If you’re ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don’t know how to speak the natives’ language, just say “Poppy-oomy.” I bet it means something.

Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes

You look like you were pulled through a knothole backwards.

Meaner than a snake

A fine howdy-do

It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook up about a hundred drumsticks, then the guy at Marine Land says, "You can't throw that chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish."
Sure they eat fish if that's all you give them! Man, wise up.

I don’t do quagmires.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

That dog won't hunt.

In the wake of a successful Iraqi elections President Bush’s job approval rating has jumped up to 57% or, as high school teachers call it, an ‘F’.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

Give a 50 cent answer for a nickel question.

Purty as a picture

If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.

He’s so slippery he’d hold his own in a pond full of eels.

Granny Scrooch

It’s comin’ down a toad-floater.

Full of piss and vinegar

You can’t blame a worm for not wanting to go fishing.

Lower than a snake in a wagon track.

Bowed up like a Halloween cat