Dadisms

My dad was "famous" for his dadisms:

"Ship up or shape out!!"

"I'm going to bot your swottom."

In Jean Ferris's Once Upon a Marigold there are some wonderful dadisms:

As Ed would say, he'd buttered his bread and now he had to lie in it.

Finally, near dawn he drifted off, figuring that there was nothing he could do about it now; it was all spilled milk over the dam.

But it was too late now to lock the barn door after the wolf in sheep's clothing was stolen.