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dryad
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19 Sep 2010, 1:35 pm

This is your chance to list some of your favorite idioms and 'turns of phrase', especially if they make you laugh when you think of them.

For starters:

"Don't get your panties in a wad!" (meaning don't get upset)

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19 Sep 2010, 2:09 pm

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, huh?

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dryad
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19 Sep 2010, 2:49 pm

SonicMisaki wrote:

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, huh?

"Can't win for losing!"

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19 Sep 2010, 4:22 pm

One fry short of a Happy Meal.

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19 Sep 2010, 4:29 pm

One beer short of a six-pack. :lol:

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19 Sep 2010, 5:21 pm

"Not the sharpest tool in the shed."

"The lights are on, but nobody's home."

And this one really makes me laugh: "Don't get your hiney up in the air!"

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19 Sep 2010, 5:49 pm

" Like shooting fish in a barrel! "

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19 Sep 2010, 5:57 pm

Quote:

smart as a wimp.

( smart)

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19 Sep 2010, 11:52 pm

"make like a tree and get out of here!" [biff in B2TF]

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20 Sep 2010, 12:23 am

auntblabby wrote:

"make like a tree and get out of here!" [biff in B2TF]

haha ..
i love that movie. you know there is a cafe in chicago with a delorian the owners have outfitted with a fake flex capacitor??

..

"off like a prom dress"

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20 Sep 2010, 6:42 am

Put on your big girl panties and deal!

Thinks he's Tarzan's Mama.

Thinks he's the last Coca-Cola in the desert.

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Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
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20 Sep 2010, 8:09 am

"You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar."

(I hate flies - why would I want to catch them?)

:wink:

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20 Sep 2010, 8:28 am

Got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't looking.

Prime candidate for natural deselection.

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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20 Sep 2010, 4:29 pm

i like those!

"More fun than a barrel of monkeys"

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20 Sep 2010, 4:46 pm

Shallow end of the gene pool.

Landing stripling.

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20 Sep 2010, 5:23 pm

Pissin' in the wind.

She's a whole lotta hamburger for such a little bit of french fries (said of a woman who totally outclasses her boyfriend)

He's all that and a bag of potato chips

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