Oh boy this might take a while but immediately I'm remembering my grandfather saying " well I'll be a suck egg mule".
Given time I'll come up with more.
Oh... I worked with an old Mennonite.
He'd start sayings then assume you knew the rest.
"Buy you books and send you to school" he'd say.
I think the punchline is "and then eat the teacher".
I dunno...