05-01-2008, 01:24 PM | #61 |
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05-01-2008, 01:35 PM | #62 |
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Nice house but no one's home.
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05-01-2008, 02:05 PM | #63 |
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05-01-2008, 02:30 PM | #64 |
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The only time he opens his mouth it's to change feet.
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05-01-2008, 02:51 PM | #65 | |
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In our pre-decimal coinage days we had a coin worth three old pennies (1.5 new pence in modern money). It was called a threepenny bit. The cockney rhyming slang phrase 'threepeeny bits' was a (usually complimentary) reference to a woman's front upper torso. A colloquialism I like is one used to describe having mixed emotions - it's like watching your car being driven off a cliff by your mother-in-law. (A mixture of sadness and joy.) Last edited by Sparrow; 05-01-2008 at 02:59 PM. |
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05-01-2008, 03:30 PM | #66 |
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If he had a clue, he must've given it up for Lent.
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05-01-2008, 03:34 PM | #67 |
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Here's 2 Star Trek Colloquialisms:
"His body transported, but his head's still in the buffer." "His turbolift doesn't quite reach the bridge." Last edited by Steven Lyle Jordan; 05-01-2008 at 03:50 PM. Reason: Thought of another... |
05-01-2008, 03:56 PM | #68 |
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Could a saying by a group that is not located in a common geographic area but have a common interest be a colloquialism?
One I'm sure all of us here use - "It fell into the bit bucket." An interesting one I had to explain to a Spanish speaking person was, "over yonder." Luckily in Spanish it translates easily to "allá" as opposed to "allí". |
05-01-2008, 05:22 PM | #69 |
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I once had a room so small that I had to step into the hall to change my mind.
The only thing I got from that book was paper cuts. or on another subject: She gave up her virginity for lent.
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05-01-2008, 09:16 PM | #70 |
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Don't buy a pig in a poke.
You pays your nickel and you takes your chance. Looks like two shoats in a bag fighting to get out. |
05-01-2008, 09:24 PM | #71 | |
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you can't trust that one, he changes his mind like he changes his shirt. a real weather vane he is. |
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05-01-2008, 10:39 PM | #72 |
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05-01-2008, 10:43 PM | #73 |
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05-01-2008, 11:24 PM | #74 |
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Don't engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
And let's not forget dear Ol' Harv, who once he found Vera, was happy as a pig in slop, because Vera walking away looked like two pigs fighting in a burlap sack. And to add a family favorite phrase from when one of my sons was about 7, in honor of the intense thunderstorms and hail we're having tonight: "Dad! There's golf balls the size of hell outside!" Last edited by Taylor514ce; 05-01-2008 at 11:46 PM. Reason: Once the people begin to reason, all is lost. |
05-02-2008, 12:04 AM | #75 |
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I could eat a handful of iron filings and puke a better design than that. *
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