1. So
   What
2. Who
   Not

"I know you are, but what am I?" is a phrase used when someone calls you a name. For example, if someone calls you a dork, the response indicated that the other person is, in fact, the dork.

1. Swing
   Chair
2. Boat
   Tree

This expression is used to tease two people about having a crush on each other, so they are sitting in a tree and kissing. Awwww.

1. Crack
   Hurt
2. Break
   Damage

Remember walking down the sidewalk and trying to avoid stepping on the cracks? It was more fun if you pretended that stepping on one would break your mother's back.

1. Kiss
   Tag
2. Diss
   Bliss

This expression is often used in games like tag. If your opponent tries to tag you and misses, he or she has to kiss you. Yuck!

1. Ice cream
   Face
2. Joke
   Snowball

This is a classic used by parents who are tired of their children making faces at each other. Warning you that your face would freeze in that expression has stopped many a sibling battle.

1. A good thing
   Another wrong
2. A right
   Anything

This age-old admonition is used to warn people about compounding on their mistakes. Adding one misdeed to another one won't make the first one right again.

1. Question
   Person
2. Child
   Teacher

This goes against the idea that there are no stupid questions. At one time or another, someone probably told you that if you ask a stupid question, you'll get a stupid answer, so don't complain about it.

1. Play
   Read
2. Run
   Jump

This is a classic jump rope rhyme. It is used when the rope is being swung by two people and a third is jumping. The jumper says the rhyme to invite another particular person to join in.

1. Door
   Nine-inch
2. Steel
   Floor

"Deader than a door nail" is an expression most often heard in the South. It is an assurance that someone or something is most certainly, irretrievably dead.

1. House
   Town
2. You're
   Pants

"Liar, liar, pants on fire" is a frequent childhood taunt used to call someone out for lying. Sometimes even adults use it when they think someone is not telling the truth.

1. Moe
   Joe
2. Flo
   Toe

"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe" is the first line of a classic counting rhyme used to determine, for example, who goes first in a game. Do you remember all the ways to add to the rhyme to ensure a good outcome for yourself?

1. Fingers
   Toes
2. Heart
   Legs

Is there any better way to ensure your friend that you'll keep a secret? It's even more sincere if you solemnly make a cross sign across your heart.

1. Others
   Losers
2. Boys are
   Girls are

This is a way of saying, "Too bad, it's mine now." Even if the object in question previously belonged to your friend, it was worth a try to convince the other party that it was their fault for losing it in the first place. Mom didn't always agree.

1. Egg
   Tomato
2. Potato
   Mushroom

This expression always adds some extra incentive to a foot race. After all, who wants to be a rotten egg?

1. Pig
   Tractor
2. Horse
   Farmer

Need to tell your buddy that his fly is open? Tell him to close the barn door before the horse gets out. He'll get the message.

1. Cat
   Time
2. Mule
   Dog

Everyone who has seen the movie "A Christmas Story" knows this expression, whether they've used it personally or not. A dare is one thing, a double dare is more serious, but a double dog dare? You can't back down from that!

1. Words
   Dogs
2. You
   Guns

There are a few versions of this axiom, but the most common is probably "words will never hurt me." You might have substituted "words" with "names" to ensure that a childish case of name-calling was falling on deaf ears.

1. More
   Store
2. Bore
   Four

This is the first line of a common rhyme. It is often used to teach small children to count.

1. Jewelry
   Sailboats
2. Seashells
   Hang-gliding lessons

Most children have used the"She sells seashells by the seashore" rhyme, commonly called a tongue-twister. It uses repetition of the same sound, making it difficult to say quickly.

1. Drum
   Rug
2. Toy
   Flower

"Make like a drum and beat it" is a common childhood expression used to tell someone to go away. It uses the dual use of the word "beat," which is what one does to a drum and also a slang expression for leaving.

1. Sink
   Worm
2. Nose
   Pie

"Shut your pie hole" means . . . well, to shut up. In other words, "Please close the orifice through which you eat pie."

1. Telescope
   Eye
2. Magnifying glass
   Spyglass

"I spy with my little eye" is a great game for keeping children occupied during a car trip. One person plays the spy and the others must guess the object the spy has seen.

1. Gossip
   Rat
2. Boy
   Bird

"A little bird told me" is a common way for letting someone know that you can't tell them where you heard something. Your mother probably used the expression on you when she'd learned something from another parent and didn't want to rat them out. Clever!

1. Cuckoo's
   Robin's
2. Blackbird's
   Seagull's

This is part of an old children's folk rhyme that is often used for counting people out of a game. It was also the inspiration for the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

1. Learn
   Know
2. Have
   Be

This is another version of "I know something you don't know." As children, we used it to tell our friends that we had the upper hand on a particular subject and they had some learning to do.

1. Find
   Hide
2. Tie
   Buckle

"One, two, buckle my shoe" is the first line of a counting game for children. You can tell how old it is by the fact that shoes rarely come with buckles anymore.

1. Bunny
   Buggy
2. Bonnet
   Broken

"Rubber baby buggy bumpers" is a tongue twister often used by children. The "buggy" refers to a stroller or pram.

1. Aspartame
   Acid rain
2. Puddin' tame
   Please refrain

Who knows what "puddin' tame" (sometimes spelled puddintane) really means? It doesn't matter though. It's just a phrase children use to say, "It's none of your business."

1. Paper
   Rubber
2. Ink
   Plastic

"I'm rubber and you're glue. Everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you." When you were a kid, there were times when this was the perfect comeback when someone called you a name.

1. Wise
   Silly
2. Dumb
   Old

Blue shoe is a popular counting rhyme for games like jump rope. After saying "How old are you?" the jumper begins counting and the highest number reached before you miss (the rope) is said to be your age.

1. Tune
   Cow
2. Pig
   Cake

"You can't carry a tune in a bucket" is a way of saying, "You can't sing, dude."

1. You're a
   Punch
2. Little
   Funny

Punch Buggy is a car game in which the first person to spot a Volkswagen Beetle (also called a Bug) and say, "Punch buggy!" gets to hit the other person on the arm. Yes, it could get out of hand.

1. Bottle
   Vat
2. Drinker
   Glass

"Monkey, monkey, bottle of beer" is a counting game often used by children. Like several others of its kind, it's handy for keeping track of the number of times you can jump a rope without missing.

1. Lonely
   Old
2. English
   Beggar

"Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief" is a line from an old English nursery rhyme sometimes used to tell fortunes. In the most common American version, the next line is "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief."

1. Different time
   Bathtub
2. Barn
   Hospital

You might remember your mother asking you this question a time or two. "Were you born in a barn?" could have meant "Why did you leave the door open" or "Why are you not using good manners?"