Preserved Topic: Crazy sayings (Page 1 of 2)

Ever notice how people say things? Like
1. Keep an eye on that
2. the whole nine yards
3. keep your eyes peeled (ouch!)
4. here's mud in yer eye
5. in a New York minute

I hear these things and have begun wondering what the hell they really mean! Or do they mean anyhting at all! I only listed 5 but there are probably hundreds of sayings people use and never really think about them literally. Can you think of some? Do you know what they mean?

`300`

That's as smart as screen doors on a submarine!

4:20

Yeah, that was a crazy one. Keep an eye for the other 5.

:laughin at rick: hey what's 4:20 bougda, the time? 5x5

That puddle is about knee-high to a tall duck.

i always thought dead as a doornail was stupid.

Well thats just the bee's knees

Yeah! That's the ticket. Always wondered what was "cute" about bee knees.
And dead as a doornail! God, that one goes back to my ancestors timie when people knew what a doornail was!

i hate to be the one to burst everyones buble...yeah that is stupid...and i just used it in another thread...doh!

L L
The final exam is just around the corner. It's going to beat you with a Hoky stick. You won't get a flying- color result. And who let the dogs out?

I think next time I will skip asking my mom and grandmom on a 3 way call

Hush before I give you something to cry about !
~I always cried before the spanking so heard this one a lot so I REALLY hated this saying. Come to think of it this was as bad as her licking her finger and cleaning something off your face ~


Birds of a feather flock together. (So that covers it heh..birds ....feathers)

Every dog has his day. (Do cats?)

No use crying over spilled milk. (Well since I don't drink milk am I safe to cry?)

The early bird catches the worm. (Do the rest starve?)

Easy as pie. ( I bet they had frozen back then too)

Wouldn't know them from Adam. (what if you didn't know anyone namedAdam) LOL

Every which way but loose. ( Wonder who thought that one up)

Between a rock and a hard place ( Ouch !)

If the Lord willing and the creek don't rise ( jus laugh'in)

Happy as a pig in mud ( wow that must be happy heh)

Something's fishy about this ( ok now I am lost which of course doesn't take much)

Ohhhh I thought of these after I posted !

If it ain't broke don't fix it ( duhhhh )

Go with the flow. (How boring that would be)

Has the cat got your tongue? (What would he want with it?)

A little bird told me. ( Probably the one the cat with your tongue ate ) :

There's more than one way to skin a cat. ( Poor cat...they stayed on them it seems)

When the cat's away, the mice will play. (YAY ! Now they get a vacation !!!)

I need that like I need a hole in my head.( Mom said that a lot as she threw stuff in the shopping cart)

I wasn't born yesterday. ( No chit ?!?!)

It runs in the family. (Talk about building self esteem)

The more the merrier. ( PERK)

No news is good news. ( I think a blonde thought that one up)

No pain, no gain ( I never saw a rich man in pain)

A penny for your thoughts. ( You better break out the check book and credit cards around here)

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. ( No comment) ok one (ouch !)

You've made your bed, now lie in it. ( Not at my moms house you wouldn't ! )

Wish in one hand, chit in the other. ( ok that's gross no matter how ya look at it)

You've got to go by the feel. ( ummmmmmm no comment)

When it rains, it pours ( ooooooh I remember the blonde on the salt box!)

another statement from another thread:

"just my 2 cents"

anything involviong yours, hers, his, their, or my 2 cents is retarded...doh!

he/she is blind in one eye and can't see out of the other

my god Boudga....i have never heard that before....is that real?

How about them apples?

My grandpa used to say this:

I see, said the blind man to the deaf man who could not hear.

my parents have said it for years....

Boudga: I'va also heard that one as "deaf in one ear can't hear out the other" or "blind in one eye can't hear out of the other". It means "six to one half a dozen to the other".

"Win a few. Lose a few. Some are rained out." (WAF LAF SARO)

My sister says "I see said the blind man to his deaf daughter on a stormy night" (or was it knight)

"Deaf as a post."

my parents used to tell me I was as slow as molasses in January

and that I was as dumb as a box of rocks

My parents would ask me "If they told you to jump off the house would you do that too? "

take a long walk off a short pear (er pier)

not the brightest crayon in the box

I think you've lost your marbles

knee high to a grasshopper

a nudge is as good as a wink to a blind horse

stone the crows (never understood that one)

more rabbit than sainsburys ( sainsburys is an english grocery chain.. rabbit cockney for chit chat).. lol..

thats all folks

~Vp~

Colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra.

colder than a well-diggers ass in January

Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

'I see' said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw

Let's see..

I didn't just fall off a turnip truck (wonder who did. Somebody actually had to have done these things, right?)

dumb as a stump

not the sharpest tool in the bin (I like that one)

But what do they mean? LOL!

Worthless as tits on a warthog.

Colder than a witch's titty.

Colder than twitch's titty?

How would you know about that hmmmmmm?

Dumb as a bag of hair.

stubborn as a mule.

quiet as a mouse.

fresh as springtime.

Elevator doesn`t go to the top floor.

Has only one oar in the water.

His cheese slid off his cracker.

cute as a turd in the punch bowl.

sharp as a bowling ball.

quick as a one legged turtle.

These are a few of the phrases I heard growing up..



Learn from the mistakes of others. You can`t live long enough to make them all yourself

my dad use to say:
the light's on but nobody's home

where there's smoke, there's fire

if ________ jumped off a bridge, would you?

he/she's one card short of a deck

var: he/she's playing with 51 cards

ugly as the south end of a north-bound horse

a bird in the hand's worth two in the bush (but sometimes the bushes are more interesting!) LOL

[This message has been edited by Allewyn (edited 04-03-2001).]

How about

"the're just blowing smoke up your ass..."

I always liked this one

"Busier than a sack full of beavers!"

And then there was this joined series...

"I see!" said the blind man,
"Hear hear!" said the deaf man,
"You don't say!" said [signed] the dumb man.


Your pal, -doc-

"...I need it like I need air". small adaptation for what ever it is you need so bad.

Hey, never had such a good laugh for quite some time!

*Raining cats and dogs*

heh - what do you do once it has rained cats and dogs?
go and jump in a poodle
ouch.
that one is REALLY bad.
and what's with bloody 'touch wood'?

your mother must have beat you with an ugly stick!