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Posted: 11/24/2008 1:09:05 PM | If curiousity killed the cat did he kill the dead ringer too?
If I cut to the chase will you beat around the bush?
Don't drink like a fish when your driving someone up a wall.
If great minds think alike would they ever have an axe to grind?
If you can hit the hay, hit the books, hit the nail on the head and hit the sack why do we just kick the bucket?
Should you keep your chin up if you have a knee jerk reaction?
If we let the cat out of the bag and a sleeping dog lie, why do we cut the poor chickens head off?
If it's all mumbo jumbo is mum the word?
Would you go out on a limb if I barked up the wrong tree?
You can go out on the town out of the blue but would you over my dead body?
If my foot was in my mouth would you pull my leg?
Can you smell a rat or smell something fishy without getting sick as a dog?? | |
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Posted: 11/24/2008 10:26:29 PM | Take a chil
Ive taken this under advisement and it is clear.
It is always better to get water from a rock than blood from a taxi. | |
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Posted: 11/25/2008 10:44:12 PM |
A few years ago I stopped saying "If it's not one thing, it's another" in favor of "If it's not one thing, it's two things."
Or a kids say, " If it's not one thing, it's your mother". | |
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Posted: 11/28/2008 6:59:49 AM | Hey takeachillpill-
you can! you can!
squeeze credit from a joke forum!
it WAS you-out of respect of your privacy, I left out your name.
Glad you found the thread!
Now another contribution--I say THIS all the time
You can lead a horse to water,
you can hold his head under,
but you can't make him swallow | |
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Posted: 11/28/2008 7:25:18 AM | HA! Thanks OP I love this post.
I got caught messing up at the Thanksgiving table yesterday again!
Fractured yet another phrase for sure!
My daughter was telling a long drawn out story and I said:
"Cut to your quick"
I meant to say:" Cut to the chase"
I do it all the time. I guess its because I think in Italian a lot of the time and I try to speak in English. I think sometimes these idioms loose something in the translation.
"Cut to your quick" means the same thing to me!!! | |
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Posted: 11/28/2008 7:41:35 AM | Offhand,
You can lead a horse to drink but you can't make him water.
You can pick your nose.....pick your friend.....but not your friend's nose.
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Posted: 11/29/2008 5:22:09 PM | I butcher phrases. The problem is I don’t usually recognize when I do. I am embarrassed to admit that I don’t know if I have the following phrase right or wrong. Clearly some of the previous posters are experts. So here goes:
You can tuna fish, but you can’t tuna piano.
Is it so nonsensical that seems wrong, or I am I missing some deeper hidden meaning?
Oh ya, here is an anecdote that is similar to a botched phrase. I teach Chemistry and was teaching my students the octet rule. I usually prompt my student to think about cognates in scientific words that lead them to the meaning so I asked them, “where do you think they came up with the name for an octopus?” A very proper cheerleader raised her hand and exclaimed proudly, “Because they have eight testicles”. | |
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Posted: 11/30/2008 7:58:17 AM |
You can tuna fish, but you can't tuna piano.
it's "tune a piano" you have it right just not write-LOL
You know the flat (used to be wood) surface at the bottom edge of a window?
Well I always called it a sill- as in
"don't let your little brother climb up onto the widow sill he could fall"
Well my daughter had a friend called it the "widow seal" it is actually more correct a definition | |
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Posted: 12/4/2008 6:02:01 PM | So,how come everytime I tell someone to:
"make like a tree and get outta here"
They look at me like I have two heads? | |
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Posted: 12/5/2008 8:11:07 PM | I heard a good one. But I am not sure if it is based on an actual phrase. I can't seem to remember phrases and/or tend to butcher them anyway. So I appreciate when someone else does.
Anyway, a work mate was making waves at work and said, "I feel like a Mac Truck headed for a train wreck." Is this based on an actual phrase? I have no idea. | |
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Posted: 12/7/2008 7:05:33 PM | I feel like a Mac Truck headed for a train wreck
I thinks it's combo-contraction:
"built like a mac truck"
AND
anything (person) (idea) (endeavor) headed for a train wreck, as in :
"Did you see her hair cut?"
"AWFUL! She is a train wreck!"
"How was the rehearsal dinner?"
"My Mother-in-law (to be) got drunk, told everyone to p1ss-off. It was a train wreck!"
"the auto industry is asking for a bail out from the Government"
"That will be a train wreck!"
I do like the visual of a great big truck headed for the on coming train-If it's not a fractured phrase it should be and IS NOW!  | |
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Posted: 12/10/2008 4:17:12 AM | Some childrens' misinterpretations of Protestand hymn lyrics:
Bringing In the Sheets
(Bringing In the Sheaves)
The Constipated Cross-eyed Bear
(The Consecrated Cross I'd Bear)
The Old Shit's a-Dying
(The Old Ship of Zion) | |
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Posted: 12/11/2008 12:28:42 AM | My god mothers mom used to tell her.... "Now don't let the boys take adventure of you!"
Another classic was when she went to get her car winterized.... "I would like my car circumsized please". (Would that mean you take a 1/4 in off the tailpipe????) | |
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