available in bookstores or to order online anywhere in the world
published by McArthur & Company, Toronto
Canadian Sayings Volume One has more than
1,000 lively expressions from all across Canada.
There are 3 volumes of Canadian Sayings
with more than 3,500 different Canadian sayings.
• Talkative? That dude's got more tongue than a Mountie's boot.
• She fires off her mouth more than a Mountie does a Taser.
• It's so flat in Saskatchewan, you can watch your dog run away from home for a week.
• Saskatchewan is the only place in Canada where a woodpecker has to pack a box lunch.
• You can always tell people from Saskatchewan. When the wind stops blowing, they fall over.
• Crop's so short this year in Saskatchewan, gophers have to kneel down to eat.
• I got rid of my alcohol problem. I divorced him.
• She has a room temperature IQ. Knows enough to pick the flowers, but still sticks them in her ear.
• Good leader? He couldn't organize a group shit at an Ex-Lax Convention.
• She's been married so many times, she's got veil rash.
• puck bunny — It’s what happens when a nice girl becomes an ice girl. There are several terms of opprobrium that denominate young women, spandex-clad and heavily made up, who chase professional or amateur hockey players for the sole purpose of sexual contact. The only score they are interested in at the hockey game is scoring a motel date with a hunky goalie.
Hockey ‘ho’, rink slut, net-grinder and puck bag are other insulting names.
• It was so dry last week around Virden, Manitoba, that frogs were poundin' on the screen door, askin' for a dipper of water.
• So happy she had a grin as wide as the St. Lawrence
• Rain cleared up quickly this morning in Vancouver. Disappeared faster than a B.C. premier.
• So dumb he thinks Medicine Hat is a cure for head lice.
• He was sowing his wild oats, but hoping for crop failure.
• She was pure as the snow, but she drifted.
• La rondelle ne roule pas pour lui. The puck isn't going his way.
• She had a smile on her like poison come to supper.
• She's like CPR railway track. Been laid right across the country.
• Far as ever a puffin flew. (A long way in Newfoundland)
• How cold was it last night in southern Ontario? I saw a squirrel towing a blue jay to get it started south.
• bent as a pink moose —
This disparaging adjectival phrase refers to a gay Canadian. It is probably a version of “gay as pink ink.”
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