Preserved Topic: Crazy sayings (Page 2 of 2)

Don't bite off more than you can chew

Get your head out!

A stich in time saves nine (is time torn?)

As useless as a fart in a high wind!

This is taken from a friend of mine, when he does something you don't like: "boo-hoo, cry me a river"

a guy says that?!?!

When I was your age we had to walk to and from school in waist high snow, uphill in both directions....

that's as smart as windshield wipers on a horse's ass!

Dumber than two chickens.

Not the brightest bulb on the tree.

Warm as a bug in a rug.

As cute as a bug (altough I've seen some bugs that weren't that cute)

If everyone else stuck their head in a fire, would you do it too?

The greatest thing since sliced bread (Although I usually felt this was said with sarcasm).

:laughing at boudga: In *both* directions? rofl!

Some more:
Juat in the nick o' time

Better late than never

Fools both give and receive advice (Mark Twain)

Once burned, twice shy

Cute as a bug's ear (generally their ears are rather small so I never looked lol)

and the dreaded..."Do as I say, not as I do"
followed by..."This hurts me more than it hurts you" Yeah RIGHT!

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I heard this one on the radio on the way to work this morning "we need to get down to the short strokes"

What do that mean?

I'm sure it a sexual conotation!

While I'm here:

It's a rat race

It's a dog eat dog world (how did it work for the first dog?)

I've never done/been/seen/had this before. ( *cough* the ~never~ kind of tips me off)

it's a mere bag of shells

i have always said

"Monkey Ass Noise"

And "fuck me running"

Not sure why.

*cough*
maybe you need to stop running to find out?

Allewyn: I know I'm dropping in a little late...but that one the whole nine yards...I can explain that. It came from back in the WW][ times, where the bullet belts in the fighter planes measured exactly 27 feet. So if they shot all their ammo for one gun at an enemy plane it got 'The Whole Nine Yards'.

Another good one is the term 'Rule Of Thumb'...that one comes from way back in medieval England, where there was a law stating that you could beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.




Computer Senility. I had a friend once who had it. His name was Gilbert, but he prefered it if people called him 'Ramases Niblick the third...Kerplunk, Kerplunk, Whoops! Wheres my thribble?'... - Kryton, Red Dwarf.

"more difficult than a three legged cat bury'n a turd on a frozen pond"

"faster than a cat can lick it's ass"

"busier than a three dicked dog"

Hey Skarrj,

That's two cleared up! Thanks.

Anybody else know the meanings of any the above sayings, shout 'em now
(Chocolate macadamia-nut cookies, hmmm?) <sly wink>

BTW, I'm gonna have a page for all these on my new website

i just remembered what these are called


Idioms

"I'd pay more to see a monkey shit!"

Actually the origin of the whole nine yards and the rule of thumb are in dispute
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_252.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000512.html

Word.

hmmm, does that make people who use these sayings "idiomistic"? heh.

Wow. Good source BD! Dump truck loads, wedding veils, yard-arms, 3-piece suits, cement truck loads,, funeral shroud sizes, and grave size! I like the grave size idea except the math doesn't work out right. Oh well. anyone else have any ideas to how the above came into being? You're doin great so far!

Hey Bit, remember where I left the cookies for Doc? Yours are in the same place...

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Take a foto Harry (My name's not Harry you idiot)
Don't let the bed bugs bite (Don't worry, I've had my bed exterminated)
They don't make them like they used to (Who's they and who's them?!)
The truth is out there (What! All the time?)

I'm the bouncing lamp...
Paul was the walrus
Bobby Vinton was Mr Lonely

What's good for the goose is good for the gander
He made a killing
Crazy as a loon
Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow (well, maybe)
Make a mountain out of a molehill
Be a windbag
Be put out to pasture (said of someone who retires)
Give him enough rope and he'll hang himself
Stop on a dime
Have eyes in the back of one's head