Old family expressions--

[DMenace]

My 85 year old mother still says to this day,"Six of one, a half dozen of another." when comparing to things that are equal. I say it now to my daughters but it comes out the way she said it to me, which sounde like one big fast word. Sixofone,ahalfdozenofanother. One of the girls,14, can't repeat it with out screwing it up, no matter how hard she tries.

[DMenace]

When some thing wasn't going your way it was,"Take it with agrain of salt." Someone who was down and out was always "a poor old slob" When she found a small bag of pot in my schoolbag she told me," You're brain is a fried egg." If you came home with a few too many in you, slurring your words, she would say that you had '"a thick tounge"