Favorite sayings

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What are some of your favorite sayings, cliches....

Just one I thought of or heard recently...I'm ..."like jello...hard to nail down".

Specializes in OR.
I like when I hear one of my fellow co-workers use the term "cattywampus." Example: "Will you help me reposition my patient? He's all cattywampus in the bed." I had never heard that term until an agency nurse came to work at our facility.

I use cattywampus a lot, especially when positioning females in lithotomy, as in "her catty is wampus"

My favorite saying/movie quote? "Sometimes, you just have to say {fudge} it."

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Specializes in OR.

Oh, I also sometimes refer to a given situation as a nidus coitus. Nidus, loosely defined, is a cluster.....

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
I like when I hear one of my fellow co-workers use the term "cattywampus." Example: "Will you help me reposition my patient? He's all cattywampus in the bed." I had never heard that term until an agency nurse came to work at our facility.

I use "cattywampus" a lot, but the other day I heard a PT say "kittywampus" instead when referring to the patient's hips in the chair.

I guess maybe it's one of those regional things, like "kittycorner" versus "cattycorner"?

Interestingly enough, I use "cattywampus" and "kittycorner".

And now, I think I'm showing my COB age...

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

I like monkeyshines (a small child)and licketysplit (Immediately)

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You're an adult, just cope!

If I have to pull up my big girl panties and deal with it one more time, the elastic is gonna break and I'm really gonna show my a**!

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
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If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you.

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Dryer than a popcorn fart

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Specializes in Registered Nurse.
You're an adult, just cope!

If I have to pull up my big girl panties and deal with it one more time, the elastic is gonna break and I'm really gonna show my a**!

Good one...never heard it before! haha :roflmao:

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
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Specializes in PICU, Pediatrics, Trauma.

I love to tell a young doctor with a bad attitude who challenges what I know, I know, I know: I have been a nurse longer than you have been alive.

To a friend having a hard time in life: You are having an "AFGO", i.e. Another F---ing Growth Opportunity. A therapist once told me this. I laughed so hard. She really helped my mood that day.

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Specializes in OR.

I actually have said something similar to a doc...he asked the scrub tech (I was the circ.)to get NurseR so she could do crichord pressure on the pt... I looked at him and said "I've been doing crichord since you were in diapers...lets do this."

Might have a spelling mistake, please let it go. It's my day off and a warm sunny day in the Seattle area, which is rare before July 4th.

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