What is your favorite idiom ?
- Thread starter OregonGuy
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Mr. Ed
Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
- Location
- Central NY
bury the hatchet
by the skin of your teeth
cold feet
cost an arm and a leg
drive someone up the wall
by the skin of your teeth
cold feet
cost an arm and a leg
drive someone up the wall
-Oy-
Bloke with a camera
- Location
- Lancashire
Well I’ll go to t’bottom of our stairs!
Kaila
SF VIP
Not sure what that one means.... we don't have that one here.
Also, I'm not sure I want to guess.....
horseless carriage
Well-known Member
When someone is not paying attention.
It's like talking to a brick wall. Are my words falling on deaf ears?
When someone just goes on and on, never getting to the point, we Brits refer that to: "Rabbiting on."
"For goodness sake, shut up and cut to the chase. will you."
And to shut them up use an idiom in insult form: "For heaven's sake, you're giving my arse (ass) a headache!"
At the other end of the spectrum the one who is at a complete loss for words: "Has the cat got your tongue?"
Have you ever seen someone with no interest in appearance, looking very scruffy or dishevelled? A classic idiom describing that is:
Looking like they’ve been dragged through a bush backwards. Or following the feline theme. Looking like something that the cat dragged in.
It's like talking to a brick wall. Are my words falling on deaf ears?
When someone just goes on and on, never getting to the point, we Brits refer that to: "Rabbiting on."
"For goodness sake, shut up and cut to the chase. will you."
And to shut them up use an idiom in insult form: "For heaven's sake, you're giving my arse (ass) a headache!"
At the other end of the spectrum the one who is at a complete loss for words: "Has the cat got your tongue?"
Have you ever seen someone with no interest in appearance, looking very scruffy or dishevelled? A classic idiom describing that is:
Looking like they’ve been dragged through a bush backwards. Or following the feline theme. Looking like something that the cat dragged in.
Tommy
Senior Member
- Location
- New Hampshire
Or,"been rode hard and put away wet".
PeppermintPatty
🐢. 🐳. 🐢
- Location
- Canada
Quicker than the wink of a cat
Feelslikefar
Senior Member
- Location
- Nashville, TN
'Watch Your Six'.
It has served me well in life.
It has served me well in life.
SamiD
New Member
- Location
- Western USA
Careful are you will wake up dead.
rwb
Member
- Location
- South Carolina
Or Dumber than a box of rocks.
dobielvr
Well-known Member
- Location
- California
Trying to wrap my head around it.
Two wrongs don't make it right.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Two wrongs don't make it right.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
... or a chocolate teapot.
... or a few ants short of a picnic, a Texan saying apparently.
As sharp as a bowling ball.
RadishRose
SF VIP
- Location
- Connecticut, USA
nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs
Revolting as a drain clog
Revolting as a drain clog
papa tiger
Well-known Member
They've left the building.
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, help, help, help!
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My story, well its sort of boring.
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Lift your left leg before 12:00 so you can start tomorrow off on the right foot.
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I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, help, help, help!
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My story, well its sort of boring.
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Lift your left leg before 12:00 so you can start tomorrow off on the right foot.
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Gardenlover
The world needs more love
Hold my beer and watch this...
What could possibly go wrong?
papa tiger
Well-known Member
"Well Mother keeps the hammer in her handbag Son."
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"It's like the sewer clogged and filled the basement with piss & vinegar."
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"It's like the sewer clogged and filled the basement with piss & vinegar."
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