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Baron1710
07-18-2008, 07:07 AM
Does it bug you when people misuse a phrase?
One that I hear all the time is, "That judge just splits the baby." What they really mean is he divides things 50 - 50.
or
"I could care less" when what they really mean is that, "They couldn't care less"
or
"The proof is in the pudding" which makes no sense, but the actual quote "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" does.
Do you have any to add to the list?
tamor
07-18-2008, 07:13 AM
I hate the expression, "You can't have your cake and eat it too".
Why would you want cake if you can't eat it? What'cha gonna do? Sit it up and look at it and say, "This is my cake. I can't eat it but it sure is a good looking hunk of cake!"?? :crazy
Baron1710
07-18-2008, 07:21 AM
I hate the expression, "You can't have your cake and eat it too".
Why would you want cake if you can't eat it? What'cha gonna do? Sit it up and look at it and say, "This is my cake. I can't eat it but it sure is a good looking hunk of cake!"?? :crazy
Usually this idea is expressed when one wants to do two things one of which would exclude the other. Such as eating your cake, and still having your cake. Another way of saying that would be, "You can't have it both ways."
tamor
07-18-2008, 07:27 AM
Usually this idea is expressed when one wants to do two things one of which would exclude the other. Such as eating your cake, and still having your cake.
Another way of saying that would be, "You can't have it both ways."
Exactly!
Pro31:28
07-18-2008, 07:27 AM
"You made your bed, now you have to lie in it"... Wouldn't it make more sense the other way around? Why would I want to lie in a bed that I JUST made?
tamor
07-18-2008, 07:28 AM
"You made your bed, now you have to lie in it"... Wouldn't it make more sense the other way around? Why would I want to lie in a bed that I JUST made?
:ursofunny:ursofunny
rgcraig
07-18-2008, 07:32 AM
"Half a dozen of one or six of another" - - - once again just say "about the same"
Baron1710
07-18-2008, 07:35 AM
"You made your bed, now you have to lie in it"... Wouldn't it make more sense the other way around? Why would I want to lie in a bed that I JUST made?
Don't know if this is true but at least it makes more sense when understood this way...
the saying comes from a time when beds were made on a yearly basis. If you stuffed your mattress with low quality stuffing like grass you would sleep quite comfortably for a week or so but the grasses would soon break down and you would be lying on a very poor bed.
Pro31:28
07-18-2008, 07:37 AM
Don't know if this is true but at least it makes more sense when understood this way...
the saying comes from a time when beds were made on a yearly basis. If you stuffed your mattress with low quality stuffing like grass you would sleep quite comfortably for a week or so but the grasses would soon break down and you would be lying on a very poor bed.
Has anyone ever told you that you are a smarty-pants?
Baron1710
07-18-2008, 07:39 AM
Has anyone ever told you that you are a smarty-pants?
What does that phrase mean? Smart pants????
Baron1710
07-18-2008, 07:40 AM
"Half a dozen of one or six of another" - - - once again just say "about the same"
My mom says that all the time, along with, "Spit in one hand want in the other and see which one fills up."
Pro31:28
07-18-2008, 07:41 AM
What does that phrase mean? Smart pants????
Do you have a problem with it?
Smart-aleck , sarcastic person... :tease
Baron1710
07-18-2008, 07:43 AM
Do you have a problem with it?
Smart-aleck , sarcastic person... :tease
But where does it come from? kinda weird if you ask me.
tamor
07-18-2008, 07:51 AM
My mom says that all the time, along with, "Spit in one hand want in the other and see which one fills up."
My ex husband used that phrase, but he substituted another letter for the p in spit! :woot
Pressing-On
07-18-2008, 07:54 AM
My ex husband used that phrase, but he substituted another letter for the p in spit! :woot
You're on the wrong thread, Tamor! :killinme
Pro31:28
07-18-2008, 07:55 AM
My ex husband used that phrase, but he substituted another letter for the p in spit! :woot
I have heard it that way too!
tamor
07-18-2008, 07:58 AM
You're on the wrong thread, Tamor! :killinme
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Michael Phelps
07-18-2008, 09:02 AM
I hate it when people say, "Let's just nip it in the butt"
Baron1710
07-18-2008, 09:04 AM
I hate it when people say, "Let's just nip it in the butt"
That's funny. I never heard anyone misquote that one before.
there is a one word phrase Ive heard more than most people....
Behave!
some one tell me PLEASE how does one Have (pronounced with a long A)?
if one does not know how to have in the first place, how can one be a have?
I do not get that one at all.
dizzyde
07-18-2008, 11:15 AM
My daughter is the queen of mixing metaphors, things like "don't get your cart before all of the eggs in your basket!" :toofunny :toofunny
tamor
07-18-2008, 11:21 AM
My daughter is the queen of mixing metaphors, things like "don't get your cart before all of the eggs in your basket!" :toofunny :toofunny
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StillStanding
07-18-2008, 11:21 AM
My daughter is the queen of mixing metaphors, things like "don't get your cart before all of the eggs in your basket!" :toofunny :toofunny
I mentioned this on another thread the other day. My sister said one time, "You hit the nail on the bucket!"
It was a mix of "You hit the nail on the head" and "It's just a drop in the bucket". :)
Pro31:28
07-18-2008, 11:21 AM
my grandmother says of poor vocalists, "She can't sing in a bucket!"
dizzyde
07-18-2008, 11:27 AM
I mentioned this on another thread the other day. My sister said one time, "You hit the nail on the bucket!"
It was a mix of "You hit the nail on the head" and "It's just a drop in the bucket". :)
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dizzyde
07-18-2008, 11:28 AM
my grandmother says of poor vocalists, "She can't sing in a bucket!"
I wonder where that came from? Or what it even means?
Pro31:28
07-18-2008, 11:58 AM
I wonder where that came from? Or what it even means?
"She couldn't carry a tune in a bucket"
dizzyde
07-18-2008, 12:06 PM
"She couldn't carry a tune in a bucket"
:doh
Sorry, apparently "the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree!!!" :wacko :toofunny :toofunny
:anonymous
tamor
07-18-2008, 01:04 PM
:doh
Sorry, apparently "the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree!!!" :wacko :toofunny :toofunny
:anonymous
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