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07-18-2008, 07:07 AM
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Things people say
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.
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"I could care less" when what they really mean is that, "They couldn't care less"
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"The proof is in the pudding" which makes no sense, but the actual quote "The proof of the pudding is in the eating" does.
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07-18-2008, 07:13 AM
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Re: Things people say
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!"?? 
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07-18-2008, 07:21 AM
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Re: Things people say
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Originally Posted by tamor
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!"?? |
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."
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07-18-2008, 07:27 AM
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Re: Things people say
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Originally Posted by Baron1710
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."
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Exactly!
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07-18-2008, 07:27 AM
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Re: Things people say
"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?
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07-18-2008, 07:28 AM
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Re: Things people say
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Originally Posted by Pro31:28
"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?
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07-18-2008, 07:32 AM
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Re: Things people say
"Half a dozen of one or six of another" - - - once again just say "about the same"
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07-18-2008, 07:35 AM
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Re: Things people say
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"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?
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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.
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07-18-2008, 07:37 AM
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Re: Things people say
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Originally Posted by Baron1710
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.
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Has anyone ever told you that you are a smarty-pants?
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Do NOT act in such a way as to be offensive, and then blame it on me"
Love, God
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07-18-2008, 07:39 AM
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Re: Things people say
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Has anyone ever told you that you are a smarty-pants?
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What does that phrase mean? Smart pants????
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