Say What!?!?!?!

[giggles7p]

Ok, this thread is about those little phrases that are said all the time but make no damn sense!! Like......"your cute as a button"?????......are buttons cute?? is this a compliment or dis??

Who else has some freaky phrases that we can put under the microscope..?

Here's another one....men say this all the time...."I just pissed like a racehorse"??? Are racehorses known to pee more than normal horses?

[wagerjunction]

Yeah, I got one: It's raining cats and dogs...

Where on earth does that come from

[TheBoyMitchell]

Yeah, I got one: It's raining cats and dogs...

Where on earth does that come from

OOH! I know that one.

In the olden days, houses used to have thatched roofs and be heated by open fires. The cats (mainly) and other animals would climb up to the eaves to get snuggly in the warm thatch.

When it rained really hard the thatch would get wet and cool down, and so down would come the animals.

Hence, raining cats and dogs/

hth

[wagerjunction]

Cool, thanks Mitch

And I just remembered this one "Bleeding like a stuck pig" Why??? Do pigs bleed more than other animals?

[casinolatte]

I have one! I have to pea like a race horse! lol Does anyone know how they pea lol!

[universal4]

Yes, horses really do pee a lot after a race.

See the explanation here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...6154444AAKMX5P

Rick
Universal4

[AmCan]

My apologies to those offended by such language:
"He don't know shit from shinola!"

Really? Are there many people who can see or have a sense of smell, who can't tell the difference?

[Ixian]

This one makes perfect sense but I always smile when I hear it, "It's as dry as a wooden dogs arse".

I wonder who initially made that comparison?

[giggles7p]

HAHA, Shit from Shinola....I have heard that one also AmCan....WTF is that all about??? I have also heard people when thier in a heated argument say this...."I will be all over you like shit on rice"??? Really?? Is that a main dish somewhere that i don't know about and if so, i'll be sure to never go there! loll

Mark, Wooden dogs arse???? I wonder what their talking about?? the weather or their wife's?? LOLLLLLLLL

[Renee]

One I like to use is "I'm so hungry I could eat the crotch of a low flying duck"

A few Aussie sayings:

- Hard as a dead dingo's donger.
- Dry as a nun.
- Fair dinkum (never used that in my life but it's a common aussie saying)
- Couldn't organise a root in a brothel (and many variations)
- Useless as tits on a tomcat
- Head like a smashed crab/half sucked mango/etc

There are so many of them. No idea who made them up but they can actually be really funny when used correctly..

[shortow]

One I like to use is "I'm so hungry I could eat the crotch of a low flying duck"
- Dry as a nun.

Renee I think you might have sanitized this one a bit. I always knew it as...

"dry as a nun's nasty"

apologies to any nun's i've offended

I also love...

"tighter than a frog's arse-hole" (or ass-hole for you Americans)

and

"as full as a fat lady's shoe"

[ElaineGardiner]

"Happy as Larry"....who's this Larry guy...and why is he so happy

[GPWA Aaron]

Not really a phrase, but I used to ask an old coworker of mine how he was doing, and he would often reply "Gruntled."

The explanation? If being "disgruntled" meant you were unhappy or unsatisfied, why shouldn't "gruntled" mean the opposite?

[Gabriel_LCP]

dry as a nun? that's probably the best one I've heard! The one about the frog behind is the grossest one I've heard! But still very good haha

[wagerjunction]

I also love...

"tighter than a frog's arse-hole" (or ass-hole for you Americans)

Yeah, and a variation thereof usually refers to stingy people who clutch their wallets "tighter than a crab's arse-hole".

[Renee]

Renee I think you might have sanitized this one a bit. I always knew it as...

"dry as a nun's nasty"

apologies to any nun's i've offended

I also love...

"tighter than a frog's arse-hole" (or ass-hole for you Americans)

and

"as full as a fat lady's shoe"

We often say tight as a fish's asshole...
It's one of my favourites actually..

I think dry as a nun is the shortened version of yours.. afterall us aussies shorten everything.

[Isabell_RAffs]

This one makes perfect sense but I always smile when I hear it, "It's as dry as a wooden dogs arse".

I wonder who initially made that comparison?

hahaha! Probably the same person who made this comparison: "rare as rocking horse shit"

[CasinoTom]

One of my favourites is one thrown about in Football (or 'Soccer') every now and then is "couldn't hit a cow's backside with a banjo".

Usually heard when Emile Heskey is playing...

[PremTips]

"Break a leg" meaning "Good luck" - where does this one come from?!? I get nervous when someone says "break a leg" to me before I play football!!

[AWH-Gemma]

Happy as a Sandboy! My all time favourite also not enough room to swing a cat