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[SecretSquirrel]

I've always liked "Madder than a wet hen."
and
"Cuter than a bug's butt."

[elyseface]

The piece of advice "Don't take any wooden nickels."

Also "the berries" can replace "bee's knees" and I like that one just as much.

[UncleGabby]

"So let's all go dulsin' and winklin' down at the wangan, over at the shimshack and go breakin' the jam. "

I cannot tell you what any of it means, but I think it has a very pleasant ring to it and I'm sure it probably applies to any and everything.

[ZiggyTheZ]

Crazy as a shit-house rat

Madder'n a bat in a barn (this one is used for mad meaning angry or crazy)

High as a giraffe's ass (seems like it would be giraffe's head, but ass is more catchy I guess)

Dog-dang (as in, "Where'n the hell'd I put my dog-dang wrench?")

[Tobias]

How about what many consider to be the first slang word/phrase, 23 Skidoo.  It meant leaving quickly but people back then used it for everything.

[RummyLu]

You're the son of a bawd  and daft as a brush if you think that "23 skiddoo" was the first slang word ever invented.

[MindBullet]

Everyone knows the first slang phrase was "In denial",which was used by ancient Egyptians when someone was in the Nile river.

[tallakchick]

Mind your Ps and Qs

loosely translated: mind your manners

[daniannel]

Everyone knows the first slang phrase was "In denial",which was used by ancient Egyptians when someone was in the Nile river.

Close, they dropped them in the river when they wouldn't admit they were wrong.

[Vickye]

I don't know if this one ever made it out of the South, but used to be when you asked someone where they going, they would reply, "I'm going to see a man about a dog." It basically meant, "None of your damn business where I'm going." I was always heartbroken when nobody brought me back a puppy.

[Glenn]

Funny, "seeing a man about a horse" is slang for going for a piss. Same idea, I suppose.

[what_the!?]

It still say "Dag-nabbit" when cussing won't get the point across, that and I think as peoploe of the start of a new century, we should refer to these years as the 'aughts'. Old people always refer to years like 1907 or 1904 as, 'aught-seven' and 'aught-fur'; so I could tell my kids I remember back in "twenty-aught-eight, I got to vote for a black guy..." something like that.
 

[fuckingkillhim]

Zounds!

[Kit Kat]

that's the cat's pajamas. (same as bee's knees)

[Emergency Exit]

My mother (and apparently my grandmother) used to say "You make a better door than a window" for "get out of the way, I can't see."

I also always got "Cat fur for kitten britches" in response to any question I asked that my mom didn't want to answer.  Usually in response to asking what I was getting for Christmas.

[DrDank]

Previous generations seem to have had an unnerving obsession with the clothing of cats.

[Kalli]

If anyone burped after a meal, my grandpa would say "More room out than in."
If we put more on our plate than we could finish, we got "Your eyes were bigger'n your stummick?"

[CyborgPolarBear]

Dumber than a bag of hammers - Indicated party is stupid / foolish
Colder than a wedge - Indicated party is unconscious, I.E. "Knocked him colder than a wedge."
(S)He'd cut of their nose to spite their face - Indicated party is a prick.
Catch the sugar - to contract Diabetes.
Colder than a well-digger's ass - Of unpleasantly low temperature.
Asshole deep on a six-foot Indian - Used to indicate significant depth in regard to rain or snow.
Southern end of a northbound horse - Indicated party is a horse's ass.
Ugly as manure and half as useful - Indicated party is lazy, and possesses lax standards of hygiene.
Cussed him 'til a fly wouldn't land on him - User berated indicated party with excessive anger/duration.
Sunning bees - Indicated party is wasting time or doing nothing.

You grow up around a family of rural miners and you pick up some things.

[AgamemnonJones]

We should bring back as much slang from the 1800's as possible.  Such as:

Absquatulate - to disappear
Algerine - a pirate
All on one stick - altogether, all combined
Bad Egg - an asshole
Balderdash - bullshit
Biggest toad in the puddle - most important dude around (e.g. David Wong is the biggest toad in the puddle on PWOT.)
Catwamptiously chewed up - to have one's ass thoroughly kicked (one of my favorites)
Corned - drunk (this one has a nice ring to it.)
Critter - we all know what this one means.  I just threw it in because it reminds me of Yosemite Sam.
Deef - deaf
Don't know beans - don't know jack shit
Dram shop -  a small bar
Groggery - a shitty bar
Horn - a glass of booze
Hornswoggle - to fuck someone over
Huffed/huffy - pissed off
Humbug - another term for bullshit
Husking bee/husking frolic - a party, basically one where people came together to shuck corn and drink, especially one that ended in a brawl
Liquor - (used as a verb) to drink
Old Orchard - whiskey (and this will be how I refer to it from here on out.)
Ornery - mean, cranky, bitchy.
Poor as Job's turkey - flat broke
Rum hole - another term for a small bar, especially in New York (next time I'm in New York, I'll be on the lookout for any rum holes that still happen to exist.)
Savage as a meat axe - a total badass (this one should be in common usage no matter what.)
Shut pan - shut the fuck up
Skedaddle - to get the hell out of a place
Slick - to fix, to dress up
Smile - to take a drink (that pretty much explains it all, doesn't it?)
Sockdologer - a powerful punch
Varmint - anyone who's seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon knows what this means.
Wrathy - another term for pissed off

Special thanks to Google for all the help on this one.

[Darkrenown]

Similarly, 'cat's pyjamas'.
It's great because cat's don't wear pyjamas!  Silly cats.

that's the cat's pajamas. (same as bee's knees)

Hooberdank - an old timely name to call an idiot who doesn't read the thread before posting, as in " Damn, Kit Kat sure is a hooberdank!"