Maybe 'I swan' was past tense of I swoon? And we've said 'ass over applecart' forever. Grandma had a zillion of these sayings. 'Cat's in the lake' for it's too late to fix it now, and the one that flummoxed me entirely when she first said it to me, 'Blind man, galloping horse, dark night.' After I'd stared at her for a while, she finally said (about a goof on some woodworking I wasdoing in her house) 'A blind man on a galloping horse on a dark night won't see it'.

Also if something is falling to pieces faster tha one can put it back together, we say it is 'having kittens'. Course there is always 'more fun than drowning kittens' and 'haven't had so much fun since my last root canal', neither of which sounds like much fun... (is that why I have a never-ending supply of cats?

Cami Su