Shit my dad (1920–2002) said: "You fell in the shit house and came out smelling like a rose." (Said when I committed a blunder in a card game that he was teaching me and ended up benefiting from it.) "All that meat and no potatoes!" (Said of a corpulent but small-busted woman on television.) "It's either shit or get off the pot." (Said on various occasions.) "He's sittin' there with his thumb up his ass . . ." (I can't remember what this referred to, but the expression has lingered in my memory. I think it was meant to describe a state of idleness.)
A friend claims his uncle used to say, "You're pissin' on the wheels of progress." whenever someone was holding something up.