_ The idea to collect Mom-isms came about for a couple of reasons. First, my mom can really come up with some. Mostly she got them from her mom who was raised in the country (or up country as we say). So, I have an inbred appreciation for them, and I collect them when I hear or overhear something original.

“You’re having too much fun, somebody’s going to cry!”
Well, that was flabberghasting to me when I first heard it. It didn’t make sense to me until closer examination and it became clear. When you are a kid, playing with a group of kids or an adult and you start to really have some fun, somebody does end up crying! Somebody pulls a pigtail, slaps a little too hard or jumps off the bed onto the hard floor. When I was a little girl, my sister was having a BALL playing Three Stooges with me, next thing I know I got the Moe Howard move into the eyeball and I was crying.

“You can’t fit two asses on one pot!”
Some jobs are made for one person, not two.

"It will never be seen on a galloping horse!"
This is a really old saw, because these days almost nothing will be seen on a galloping horse. Besides a cowboy. Anyway, this saying means that "it" is poorly made, that is, that "it" would fall apart on a galloping horse, due to all that ultrafast wind.

"The rocks in his head will fill the holes in hers"
This saying defines the perfect marriage.

"Get off my ass, you're not my underwear!"
Not necessarily an old saying, but meant to warn off tailgaters on the road.