Unusual regional sayings

[lucian]

Maine backwoods,,,   " Pull hard She'll come easy "

[ridingron]

  Don't know if they are regional.  Probably more universal.  I think the genesis of one if not both is from the military.

1. SNAFU
2. FUBAR

Another couple more from the military back ground:

JAFA--description of an irritating person

TCTF-an irritating person was dealt with

[ridingron]

...  I notice Americans have altered the saying "I couldn't care less" to "I could care less" which is the exact opposite to what the original meaning is. I've seen it written many times implying the original intent but expressed as the later. Not sure whether it's just an abbreviation that's gone wrong and become the norm or something else.   

I use it both ways. As I explained to a coworker one time. I couldn't care less. I've tried as hard as I can but I just can't care any less. The other way is, I could care less but it just isn't worth the bother.

[ridingron]

  We had dozens but I’ll pick one
To confirm a obvious question, “does a wild bear s#|+ in the woods”?   

[DaveJT]

I grew up with “gapers block”. So rubberneckers is weird to me.  I also like “all we lack is finishing”.  Oh and “toad strangler” for a gully washer

[Zenermaniac]

An elderly guy I used to work with in the ‘70s used to say, “you’re a card, bud, but you better get back in the deck.” 

[SIR REAL ED]

To describe someone who is incompetent, an old friend used to say:

"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were written on the sole!"

[joe-dean]

a friend of mine used to say "no land, no cattle, no wrist watch"

[dlapierre]

My favourite rancher's southern Alberta rancher's comment. "she's built like a New Holland tractor....kinda heavy where you put the pin".

[Moparnut72]

To describe someone who is incompetent, an old friend used to say:

"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were written on the sole!"

Years ago I worked with a guy who said this quite often. He lived at an intersection of a couple of county roads.  He called his place Malfunction Junction.  However he was a masterful fabricator.
kk

[Rough Edge racing]

In my NJ  accent.." jump up MF, you ain't nailed down"...

[PeteS]

No doubt other people in other places have said it, but it always cracked me up when my grandfather would refer to people or things as being "...worthless as tits on a boar." 
Fun fact here in Indiana, you'll often hear people refer to things in a common dialect:

Tars = Tires
Ol = Oil
Worsh = Wash
Arn = Iron

This may be more of a Midwestern thing, but we will often exclaim, "Ope!", when presented with an "Excuse me." type of situation.

A lot of eastern Kentuckians moved to Indiana for work after the war. Thats how many of them pronounce those words.
Add to that air = our
My wife's family is from eastern Kentucky. One time her uncle was up visiting telling another friend of ours about “air boat”. Our friends eyes bugged out and he asked “you have an air boat?”.
Two people separated by a common language.

Pete

[TheHungarian]

All I know is, I changed the spark plugs on my V7, and now she runs like a raped ape.

[bacongrease]

  oil=  earl

 not to mention Dizzy Dean.  "he slud into base."

[Motormike]

Anyone that served in the military always has a few good ones:  when a friend of mine was in the Air Force, he screwed up some important project and got called on the carpet by his commanding officer, "Airman Smith, explain to me how you are going to UnFu*K this!"  I always loved that one. 

[Tom]

"He went to public school." or the reverse "He went to private school."  The other ones that we use are demographic based.   "He's from Honolulu."  Honolulu, Oahu is totally urbanized.  Other islands are more rural in nature.  Reversing the saying in Honolulu would explain their behavior in Honolulu. 

[jbell]

Someone needs to mention “brass monkeys”

I'm glad you asked.  Back in the olden days, cannonballs were stored on a "monkey.'  It was a square brass casting with indents on which the iron cannonballs were stacked up in a pyramid shape.  Due to the difference in contraction rates of the two metals, when it got very cold the iron balls would be forced out of the monkey.  How 'bout dem apples?

[lucky phil]

To describe someone who is incompetent, an old friend used to say:

"He couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were written on the sole!"

Or the Aussie version.....He couldn't organise a f*** in a brothel with a fist full of fivers.

Ciao

[hzbloke]

Or the Aussie version.....He couldn't organise a f*** in a brothel with a fist full of fivers.

Ciao

Or in polite company: He couldn't organise a look out the window.

[lucky phil]

Or in polite company: He couldn't organise a look out the window.

Sounds Melbournian as opposed to us brash and rude Sydney siders:)

Ciao

[Tom]

"Hang loose, brah!"  "No, beeg ting."  "Eeasy"  🤙🤙🤙🤙

[oldbike54]

"Hang loose, brah!"  "No, beeg ting."  "Eeasy"  🤙🤙🤙🤙

 You like beef ?

 Dusty

[Tom]

"If can, can.  If no can, no can."

[stubbie]

When reffering to someones appearance. "I've seen a better head on a Volkswagen".

[hzbloke]

Sounds Melbournian as opposed to us brash and rude Sydney siders:)

Ciao

Nah. It's just the lack of five dollar whores in Melbourne.

[Sasquatch Jim]

 You get what you pay for.