Expressions you don't get
 

I don't get:

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. :shrug:

I'll bet you dollars to donuts. :shrug:

Going to hell in a handbag/handbasket. :shrug:

ok, think about it...what you HAVE is worth more than what you'd have to TRY to catch.

Ok, I'll bet you a dozen donuts...if I lose, I give you 12 donuts...but, if I win, you pay me loads of money.

What the world is doing this instant!

OK. But why birds & why a bush?


That's just dumb.



I know what it means, but who came up with that one? Why not an apple cart? Why not a tool box? Why not a canoe?

Well...
 

True. But why do we still use them? :shrug: Some of them are just so silly now, yet we still say them. LOVE "heavens to Betsy" and "come hell or high water" :lol:

You are very right. I guess handbaskets were really big back in the day :nod:

:lol: :lol: I say we officially change it to canoe.

One that my mother always used (god bless her soul) is one of my favourites, "People who live in glass house's shouldn't throw stones".

Lol
 

My mother used that all the time too.

I don't live in a glass house and I'll throw as many fricken stones as I want.

I like the glass house one too.

Pot calling the kettle black I understand, but who has black pots & kettles anymore?

Fritz-a-putz? Is this like dilly-dallying?

Stupid is as stupid does.....

What the hell is that supposed to mean???

Christ on a Crutch. Why on a Crutch?

It means if you do stupid stuff, you are stupid. :)

I've never heard this. :shrug:

Um, no...
 

That's it, I'm using that from now on. :nod:

Whaaaat!!!!! :shocked: :eek: That's shocking. It was, like, my mom's favorite phrase. hmmm, maybe she made it up. No, no, I think it's real.
I like "quit lollygagging around!"

I don't know, but every time I hear that phrase, I think of Forrest Gump.

"STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES SIR!!"

I am a fan of "lollygag" also. But mom's was "dillydally."

aside from lollygag, sometimes my mom said shillyshally. :lol:

"Gag me with a spoon"


Lame. And why a spoon?

A fork would be too painful? :shrug:


:lol:

I dunno...read up on Ben Franklin's biography...he coined the f-in phrase. :lol:

I once had an older gentlemen tell me he didnt "like the cut of my jib." I had never heard that before, & I actually laughed at him

Ohhh, I love that phrase!!! I wish everyone used it. It's awesome.

I heard one of my favorite exclamations of all time from my ex-boyfriend, and I haven't heard it since (although I'd like to use it at least once before I die):

Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick!!! :eek: Love it.

Oh, also, I think a lot of expressions are what they are because they just sound good that way--people like alliteration, the way phrases fall together rhythmically, etc. So "hell in a handbasket" just sounds way better than "hell in a canoe." :shrug:

Aww...shucks....thanks baby.

Yeah I later asked a friend what that meant...he said "I think it means he didnt like your demeanor, or the way you presented yourself." Ah whatever. Old people...

"he's the cat's pajamas"
or
"he's the bee's knees"

WTF!?! Bees don't have knees...and cats don't have pajamas :shrug:

Ha-ha, well at least w/ bees knees, that would be the sound thing I was talking about earlier (and the fact that the idea of a bee's knees does sound really cute or something). Cat's pajamas I'm not sure about, but I have to admit that I use it.

What I don't like is when people say "I could care less," when they should really be saying, "I couldn't care less." That's just annoying.

This is totally off-topic now but I also can't stand when people make up words and don't even realize it. Supposably is the one I hear the most. The word is supposedly, dammit! Supposably is not a word!!! Yet I've heard even professors use it (not any who were teaching classes in my major, fortunately). Sorry, I should start a new thread if I want to gripe about this. :rolleyes:

Well - I actually think "bees knees" is cute :p

And, I agree - "supposably" is ANNOYING!!! I HATE it when people say that :mad:

Haha, once I was in an argument with one of my supervisors at a gift store where I used to work, and she was being kind of catty and used the word "supposably." I looked at her and said, "supposably?" And she goes, "sorry, I sometimes use big words." :rolleyes:

:laugh: :laugh: OMG - that's like a bad sitcom moment :laugh:

I used to have arguments like that with my ex-boyfriend -he was constantly butchering/making up words - he finally got mad at me for correcting him :p

:laugh: Yeah, I didn't even have the heart to correct her after that. I figured it would just make things worse. I was just like, "all right, whatever," and changed the subject. :p

What about "the cat's ass", as in "He thinks he is the cat's ass." ? :laugh: :eek:

Wow, I have honestly NEVER heard that one! :shocked:

Speaking of pet peeves...
 

Well, it depends...since there are two different spellings for two different meanings, :p .

Ryan, phrases you just make up right now do not count. :rolleyes: :lol:

:lol:

It must be a North-East thing then? I know a lot of people that have used that phrase. :shrug: