Colloquial saying from readers

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  • A hop, skip and a jump from here
  • What the Sam Hill–?
  • What in tarnation–?
  • I’ll be a monkey’s uncle
  • A month of Sundays
  • Once in a blue moon
  • Can’t teach an old dog new tricks
  • No fool like an old fool
  • Raining cats and dogs
  • Curiosity killed the cat
  • Hold your horses
  • For Pete’s sake
  • For the love of Mike
  • For crying out loud
  • You can’t get blood from a turnip
  • Blood is thicker than water
  • Blood will tell
  • So help me Hannah
  • Jeepers!
  • Jeepers Creepers!
  • I’ll betcha two bits
  • Up the creek without a paddle
  • Scarce as hens’ teeth
  • Hubba hubba
  • My stars and garters
  • Hotter than a gangster’s pistol
  • It’s the cat’s pajamas…the cat’s meow… the bee’s knees…
  • He’d lie when the truth would serve him better
  • She looked as if she’d been dragged through a knothole backwards
  • It’s a pip or pipperoo
  • There are more hoses’ behinds than there are horses
  • Whipper-snapper
  • I’ve got a hitch in my git-along
  • It’s not where you sit on Sundays but where you stand the rest of the week

Published by Faith Sullivan

Faith Sullivan is the author of three novels set in the fictional town of Harvester, Minnesota—The Cape Ann (Penguin), The Empress of One, and What a Woman Must Do, the latter two published by Milkweed. A frequent speaker to book groups, Sullivan has lived in Los Angeles and New York, and currently lives with her husband in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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