Now, this won’t make sense unless you know the guy (who is Finnish): The drinking stops here, said Jamppa Tuominen.
Here’s another that also rhymes in Finnish:
Open the door, it’s Bon Jovi.
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Nope, never heard. But very fitting indeed…
Knee-high to a grasshopper (means a small child)
Couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper poke [bag] (means they’re stupid)
Month of Sunday’s (means a long time)
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“Not my circus, not my monkies.” Means it’s not my job to care about whatever specific thing is being discussed.
“Happy wife, happy life.” Guessing that one is a universal truth 
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This makes me laugh heartedly! I am totally stealing this!
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This reminds me of a joke,
As useless as tits on a nun
Or
As useless as balls on a priest
As useless as a condom at a cristening
And my stepdad would say
It’s persisting it down (instead of pissing it down)
I use to play this really old lady from down south in dominoes at the nursing home I volunteered at. And when I was winning she’d say.
“You beating me like a step child 
”
Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
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As they say here in Seattle: April showers brings May showers.
The most Vermont specific expression I’ve heard here and nowhere else is “Jeezum Crow”, an exclamation used to substitute for Jesus Christ.
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Well he ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed
If women don’t find you handsome at least they’ll find ya handy
Keep your stick on the ice (don’t give up)
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“Ever hear the story of the 3 eggs?” “Too bad!”
Whenever I wanted something and I was not going to get it my grandmother would say this to me. Now i say it to my kids. I don’t have to say the too bad part. They get the gist
I’m saying “It was Glorious!” or “Glorious!” a lot as of late. I can’t figure out why but I just find it so catchy. I believe I got that from one of Will Ferrell’s character’s (I can’t think of the movie but it was definitely him).
Edit: Found the movie! It was Old School
Als de mussen dood van het dak vallen / When the sparrows fall down dead from the roof (It’s really hot out there)
Iemand blij maken met een dooie mus / Making somebody happy with a dead sparrow (giving away something with absolutely no worth)
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“Poronkusema”, reindeer’s pissery, is an old Lappish unit of distance that a reindeer can travel before needing to stop to urinate. Defined aprox. to 7,5km/4,7mi. Fun fact: reindeers can’t walk and pee at the same time.
Today it is used to describe something that is at a very obscure distance away.
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- Pipe stems (Dutch)
- Old hags (also Dutch)
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When I moved to East Sussex (from a neighbouring county a few mile away) I learned some words which described the landscape and wildlife which I hadn’t come across. For example, a word everyone uses to describe an alleyway with hedges on each side is called a twittern (twitting nearer Brighton), less local is a river with two steep banks = a ghyll, one bank = a shaw. There are birds that people used to eat in Sussex called wheatears. They have a distinctive white rump and the name derives from the Sussex rural accent (“white arse”).
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- Datsun cogs (Japan)
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