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Team Jefe
06-08-2006, 10:25 AM
A few years agao I worked with a Manufactuing Manager who had some problems with American Idioms. He seems to get them backward or combine two together. He would say these in meetings and shatter the people attending. At times it was hard to consentrate on the meeting subject.

Anyway, one of the guys started writing these down and I thoguth it might be fun to share them, over 70...I will add a few every couple of days to keep the thread going. feel free to add your own.

Don’t look at a horse with a gift in its mouth.

Don’t let the horse out of the barn because he might close the gate.

That’s straight from the hoof’s mouth.

and My favotite of all

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't look him in the mouth

BERTRAM BOY
06-08-2006, 10:57 AM
The first one is something my freind Liz says. (We call it a Lizzyism). The 2nd one comes from my cousin......


1) 10 to 1, half dozen of the other......

2) There is no "I" in team, but there are 2 "U's" in f*** you......

Carl C
06-08-2006, 11:10 AM
Does the Pope $hit in the woods?

Ranman
06-08-2006, 11:24 AM
I like this topic. I tell Jenn she's famous for almost hitting the right phrase all the time.

One of her recent ones was "That's just bad sportsman like conduct" So close, but no cigar. :biggrin.: :biggrin.: I think they're great.


I also see so many people incorrectly use expressions and cliche's, it's hilarious.

Bald Faced Lie - What the hell is a bald face? Try Bold Face Lie, an obvious lie that is told with a very "matter of fact" style.

The Six of one half dozen of the other is another classic. How the hell are they the same if you have six of one widget and a half doxen of another widget? It makes no sense. It's six in one hand, half dozen in the other. You see six and half-dozen are equal amounts, presumably of the same thing.

I'll post more as I think of them.

I also laugh about Chronic Lyricosis or constantly singing the wrong words to a song.

Eric Clapton's Cocaine - It's all right, it's all right, it's all right.... It's OK.
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - A girl with colitis goes by.
Rob Base - Don't smoke Buddah, can't stand sex, yes

Morgan's Cloud
06-08-2006, 01:09 PM
Does 'You want to have your cake and eat it too' qualify ?
That makes NO sense whatsoever but 99.9% of the world thinks it's correct.
ANYBODY can have their cake and eat it too ....
Surely it can only be 'to eat one's cake and have it too' because then you CAN'T do both !

TuxedoPk
06-08-2006, 01:10 PM
My favorite Yogism, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" :)

also called Yogisms for Yogi Bera
deja vu all over again
cash it is almost as good as money
it ain't over til it's over

Team Jefe
06-08-2006, 01:47 PM
some of my classic favorites

French Benefits, uh do you mean we get to smell bad and smoke strong cigarettes......No, its Fringe Benefits

Doggie Dog World....Maybe if you're Snopp Dogg, but for the rest of us it is a Dog Eat Dog World.

And that Boys and Girls is The Ointment in the Soup.
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I have no idea where the Fly is either:rolleyes:

goatee
06-08-2006, 10:43 PM
carl,,, was that a "big labowski" quote?
i knew a guy that would actually sing,"lights in the bat cave"
life in the fast lane by the eagles:yes:

Team Jefe
06-09-2006, 07:41 AM
Goatee - I will never listen to "Fast Lane" the same again:lookaroun

since we are a boating site and I fish I thought this one appropriate for to day

If you got a glass boat, you don’t fish with lead weights.

SideshowRob
06-09-2006, 09:47 AM
My Favorite Yogism..... Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
Robisms.....
People who live in glass houses, should get dressed in the basement.
They say crime doesn't pay.... but neither does volunteer work.

Team Jefe
06-09-2006, 09:52 AM
that's why I never voluntarily commit a crime :tongue:

Speaking of glass houses

Don’t throw rocks at glass people in their houses

Cuda
06-09-2006, 03:58 PM
I forget what athlete was being interviewed about an upcoming game, but he said "It's not going to be a walk in the cake". :biggrin.:

Team Jefe
06-12-2006, 08:12 AM
I forget what athlete was being interviewed about an upcoming game, but he said "It's not going to be a walk in the cake". :biggrin.:

That is for sure, so....

We’re going to march that long mile – right off the end of the bridge.

Dr. Dan
06-12-2006, 09:14 AM
:D I used to Frame Houses and do overall General Labor Grunt work paying for College...one General Contractor who taught me quite a bit...had some really funny takes on common sayings!

Instead of saying "Smart Fellers" (fellas) he would change it when ever we or someone screwed something up...to "Fart Smellers"..
Well aren't we a bunch of Fart Smellers... it really broke the ice when things on the job didn't go so well.

He had alot of just kinda country talk and he was really a genuine and great guy... had to have alot of patience to teach me construction. :bonk:

Doc of General Labor :banghead:

Team Jefe
06-13-2006, 01:56 PM
Speaking of Fat Smellers


If you’re wearing the shoe, it fits.

Team Jefe
06-20-2006, 10:58 AM
Don’t be the rock caught between the hard spot.

JPR
06-20-2006, 09:42 PM
I've been following this for a while. My wife has idiom dyslexia, but the irony is that her dyslexic take is usually more factual than the initial idiom. An example would be that the famed "old boys club" becomes in her words a "small man's club". There are many others and she isn't even trying...

Cuda
06-20-2006, 10:13 PM
My mom has always talked a little crazy. She and my two sisters went to NYC a couple years ago. Mom told me they visited Ground One! :)

I asked her if that was next door to Ground Zero.

Team Jefe
06-23-2006, 08:47 AM
JPR - keep 'em coming that is what this thread is all about.

CUDA - LMAO, but you know Ground Zero is a sad place, of course.

But, Ground One one the other hand is party central and hoppin' all night long.



For Today

We’re going to take that seed and run with it.

Team Jefe
06-28-2006, 08:46 AM
Since I am now heir to a Texas Ranch....

Don’t let the horse out of the barn because he might close the gate.

Ed Donnelly
06-28-2006, 10:23 AM
Happy as a pig in sunshine....From one of our multi boat owner member..Ed