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Peel an Orange in your Pocket 

Meaning tight with money, selfish, unlikly to share with others.
Ben: "Paul can I have one of them sweets please?"
Paul: "Fuck off they're mine!"
Ben: "Tight fucker, you would peel an orange in your pocket!"
Paul: "Whatever"

peel an orange in your pocket 

to generally be a tight ass mofo who would never share his biscuits with u or such items.
Scott: Can i have a biscuit please??

Philippe: No, i bought these biscuits. They're mine!!!

Scott: U tight mofo, i bet u can peel an orange in your pockets!!

I got one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel.

Something that a NY Mobster might tell a reporter when he knows that his time is limited. He's done some really outrageous shit to other gangsters, and as a result, he is a dead man. Like a moth caught on a hot light, he knows it's wrong, but the danger gives him such a charge that he really has ceased to care. A guy in this position would say this and really mean it.
"I got one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel." "We live this way, but we don't care."

One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel

2 phrases:

"One foot in the grave"- half dead, dying, death is catching up. Tired, old, metaphorical

"Foot on a banana peel"- funny, humorous, cartoon, things are going comically wrong, events are not working in one's favor. *Picture* stepping on a rake and being hit in the face with the handle. Knee slap comedy
One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel expression-

damned if you do, damned if you don't...

Guy 1: "how are you doing?"
Guy 2: *expression meaning* on one side (one foot) I've really gone to hell, or im working on getting there- and on the other side (other foot) it's pretty stupid, but entertaining to watch, the bullshit that's been happening to me or that I've been outing putting myself through...

"Falling apart and it's hysterical to witness"

Pennies in the orange peel 

The topic being discussed doesn’t mean shit, and that you don’t care.
“I got a tube of gum paste yesterday”
“Well isn’t the just pennies in the orange peel

Peeling eggs 

Constant and extremely toxic farts generally following a long night of over-consumption.
Nobody could stand being within 10 yards of Josh as he had been peeling eggs all morning.
Peeling eggs by the lactator August 22, 2009