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Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757356
12/29/22 02:10 PM
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St. Louis Co, Mo
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My own response when asked how I'm doing: " Fair to partly cloudy", usually good for a laugh, and friends expect it now.
And when I ask and they say "Can't complain", I say: "You're about the only one!"
They say, "See ya later", I will say, "Don't threaten me!"


Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.

Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.

Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757388
12/29/22 03:01 PM
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Green County Wisconsin
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pig themed

happier than a pig in Sh**

to pig out to eat uncontrollably

lipstick on a pig to try and make an superficial change to sell something typically

this place is a pigsty

hog heaven


America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757451
12/29/22 04:39 PM
12/29/22 04:39 PM
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They's one in the woodpile.


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757500
12/29/22 05:48 PM
12/29/22 05:48 PM
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Williamsport, Pa.
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Whats supposed to be aint always is


Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. What's supposed to be ain't always is. Hopper Hunter
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757507
12/29/22 05:52 PM
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Cold as a Witch’s Teat:

Back in Salem during the 1600’s, Witch’s were portrayed as old hags with wrinkly skin and icy blood. So the phrase “…colder than a witch’s tit…” was used during very cold weather because of the reference to their cold blood and skin.

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: TraderVic] #7757526
12/29/22 06:12 PM
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Eau Claire Wi
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Originally Posted by TraderVic
A "poke and plum town" ; meaning a very small town or four corners.
Poke your head around the corner and you're plum out of town.


Not trying argue since I've never heard this saying before but historically a poke is another word for a pocket and plumb is square so I would have thought a "poke and plumb" town would mean a new town just laid out; so it would be a perfectly square pocket town. Maybe idk


Life sure is tough when you don't learn from the mistakes of others.
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Trap Setter] #7757529
12/29/22 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Trap Setter
Originally Posted by TraderVic
A "poke and plum town" ; meaning a very small town or four corners.
Poke your head around the corner and you're plum out of town.


Not trying argue since I've never heard this saying before but historically a poke is another word for a pocket and plumb is square so I would have thought a "poke and plumb" town would mean a new town just laid out; so it would be a perfectly square pocket town. Maybe idk

Geographically, words have different meanings. As a kid, a poke meant a bag.


I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757562
12/29/22 07:04 PM
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Ain’t my chickens

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: G Hose] #7757574
12/29/22 07:14 PM
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How are you? If I was any better i would have to take something for it.

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757659
12/29/22 08:45 PM
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My wife's favorite saying for my passion to participate in all things outdoors. "Come He!! or High Water"

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: adsfarm] #7757666
12/29/22 08:50 PM
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"Bite off more than you can chew" - Trying to do something that's more than you can do on your own.


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Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757727
12/29/22 09:57 PM
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"Grinning like a mule eating green tomatoes"

"Grinning like a mule eat saw briars"

"Slicker then deer guts on a door knob"

"Can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear"

"If it ain't broke don't fix it"

"Day late and a dollar short"

"ugly as a mud fence"

"She has a face that would stop a nine day clock" - Pop used to say this one and cracked me up every time


Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure

Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: GREENCOUNTYPETE] #7757734
12/29/22 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by GREENCOUNTYPETE
pig themed

happier than a pig in Sh**

to pig out to eat uncontrollably

lipstick on a pig to try and make an superficial change to sell something typically

this place is a pigsty

hog heaven


As worthless as teats on a boar.

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757739
12/29/22 10:04 PM
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Windier na sack full of …holes. -Many on this site

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: tomahawker] #7757750
12/29/22 10:20 PM
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Those are some good ones!
I feel a lot more like I do now than I did when I first got here.

Zim

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Zim] #7757827
12/30/22 12:53 AM
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If you have a jelly roll in your back pocket you have Butt (a$$) in jam!

Bryce

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757872
12/30/22 06:08 AM
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She cannot be two faced or she wouldn't be wearing that one

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757874
12/30/22 06:18 AM
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Hair of the Dog that Bit You:
An alcoholic drink consumed to remedy a hangover. The phrase comes from the notion that literally rubbing the hair of the dog that bit you on the wound would help it to heal and prevent rabies.

Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757880
12/30/22 06:36 AM
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Built like a brick shat house
Stocky,very strong


"They Say Nothing is Impossible,
But, I Do Nothing Every Day."
Re: Favorite Idioms [Re: Eagleye] #7757882
12/30/22 06:40 AM
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Can’t get blood from a turnip:

The phrase, “you can’t get blood from a turnip,” is one of the more colorful idioms in the English language. The meaning of the saying is that it’s impossible to produce a desired item or outcome from an object or situation that could not, in any case, provide it. In other words, this phrase is used to show that where potential doesn’t exist, none can be realized.

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