Sayings That You Just Don't Get..

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  • korsicash
    korsicash Posts: 770 Member
    I live in a state where a certain group of people say "jokes" when they are being sarcastic or not serious....It was one joke, it was not funny and now you sound like a bigger idiot drawing out the word jokes.....
  • iluvprettyshoes
    iluvprettyshoes Posts: 605 Member
    Six to one half dozen or the other

    And I probably didn't say it right because I just think it's weird.
  • blazeybug87
    blazeybug87 Posts: 226 Member
    My Dad uses 'at the end of the day' and then continues on to make a point which has nothing to do with the day's end.

    and 'when it comes to the crunch'....the crunch of what please??

    I'm not sure if you can post links on here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr36XDC6hmA
    If that doesn't work then search for Jeremy Kyle at the end of the day on youtube. It just shows how over used it is.

    HAHAHAHA!!! LOVE IT!!! :laugh:

    I went to quite a 'hard' school in my area and I've seen at least 2 people from there as Jeremy Kyle guests...oh the shame!!!:sad:
  • butterflylover527
    butterflylover527 Posts: 940 Member
    Sorry Minnesotians, but 'Ya, you betcha' gets me. If I bet everytime I heard that in Minnesota, I would be broke!

    Also, 'Colder than a witch's tit'. How cold is a witch's tit? Anyone feel one lately?

    This officially made my day!!!
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    When people misuse "literally." The numbers were NOT literally jumping off the page at you. The pounds are not literally falling off your body.

    This. I was on a bus a couple of weeks ago, and there was a girl sitting behind me who told her friend that she had literally died of embarrassment at a party the previous evening. I had to text my fiance to tell him that I might not make it home because there was a zombie on the bus.

    Lol! This is funny.

    Sorry, I use this but it's usually to make fun of people. (Think Michael McDonald and Nichole Sullivan)
  • HotCuppaJo
    HotCuppaJo Posts: 476 Member
    Six to one half dozen or the other

    And I probably didn't say it right because I just think it's weird.

    It's " Six in one, half dozen in the other...."

    6 is the same as a half dozen, so it means, "either way, it's the same".
  • mrsheavy
    mrsheavy Posts: 33 Member
    "i slept like a baby"

    what you woke up every 3 hours to feed and then cried if you didnt get your food quick enough?
  • ashlinmarie
    ashlinmarie Posts: 1,263 Member
    "YOLO" aka "you only live once"

    ...obviously, but why would I use that to justify doing stupid and/or unsafe things? If I'm only living once I darned well better enjoy and protect what I've got.

    Ahh, the youngsters' version of carpe diem.

    How sad is it that our youngsters don't know what "carpe diem" is....and then you have to hear them saying crap like "YOLO".

    Before you know it, people will only know how to speak and write text talk....UGH!
  • sel254
    sel254 Posts: 273 Member
    Where I am in the UK, when people are hungover and have a dry mouth they say "my mouth feels like a buzzards crotch"... Seriously? You've tasted one to know that, have you?
  • blazeybug87
    blazeybug87 Posts: 226 Member
    Where I am in the UK, when people are hungover and have a dry mouth they say "my mouth feels like a buzzards crotch"... Seriously? You've tasted one to know that, have you?

    :laugh: I've never heard that one but my mate from Sheffield once told me that his mouth tasted like 'old tramps boot'
  • butterflylover527
    butterflylover527 Posts: 940 Member
    "i slept like a baby"

    what you woke up every 3 hours to feed and then cried if you didnt get your food quick enough?

    LOL!!!
  • frosty73
    frosty73 Posts: 424 Member
    When I was in college, my roommate had a poster with a cute little kitten that said, "Please be patient. God isn't finished with me yet." I always thought it meant that if you want your turn with God, you've got to wait because he's still busy with "me". Now as an adult I finally figured out, it means "Please be patient.... with me" because God hasn't made "me" perfect yet.

    Personally, I like "it is what it is." A perfect statement to describe the inevitability of the issue, you can't change it no matter what.
  • mormas
    mormas Posts: 188 Member
    A common one in Wales is "now in a minute" as in "I'll be there now in a minute"
  • sel254
    sel254 Posts: 273 Member
    Where I am in the UK, when people are hungover and have a dry mouth they say "my mouth feels like a buzzards crotch"... Seriously? You've tasted one to know that, have you?

    :laugh: I've never heard that one but my mate from Sheffield once told me that his mouth tasted like 'old tramps boot'

    You'd think if he was drunk enough to try it, he wouldn't have remembered it right? :D Or was that when he was sober? Even scarier!!! Haha
  • Erica27511
    Erica27511 Posts: 490 Member
    "It could be worse"
  • TexanThom
    TexanThom Posts: 778
    "Eat like a bird"...Some birds eat half of their body weight in one day.
  • nickyfm
    nickyfm Posts: 1,214 Member
    "Pot calling the kettle black". I understand the meaning, but I don't think I've seen many pots or kettles that are black?

    I used to get it mixed up and accidentally say, "Coffee calling the kettle black", because that made more sense hahah

    Also "Get over it". Oh thank you, kind sir! Now that you have said that, I feel so much better and don't care anymore!!
  • joseph9
    joseph9 Posts: 328 Member
    I prefer "You can't eat your cake and have it, too" to the more common "You can't have your cake and eat it too."

    I know that it works grammatically either way, but I think it makes more intuitive sense my way.
  • kathybro75
    kathybro75 Posts: 51 Member
    Daft as a brush. What's daft about a brush?
  • Krazy_Kat
    Krazy_Kat Posts: 212
    Bread and Butter and Duck under the table

    WTF never ever ever got that one.
  • joseph9
    joseph9 Posts: 328 Member
    Personally, I like "it is what it is." A perfect statement to describe the inevitability of the issue, you can't change it no matter what.

    Me too. It's a little bit zen for Western speak, but it captures something important.
  • ekz13
    ekz13 Posts: 725 Member

    And "I'm five-by-five." Faith used to say that on Buffy the Vampire Slayer all the time. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? lol


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_by_five
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    Irregardless.

    A woman at work says this all the time. In my head I am screaming "its just REGARDLESS". The two negatives (ir & less) cancel one another out.

    This is my big one - I cring every time I hear it.
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    Daft as a brush. What's daft about a brush?

    This might be a misquote from a Douglas Adams novel, "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy." During a memorable part, something is referred to as being 'daft as a bush,' meaning 'really really not very smart.'
  • AllTehBeers
    AllTehBeers Posts: 5,030 Member
    Bread and Butter and Duck under the table

    WTF never ever ever got that one.

    O.o

    I've never even heard that one.
  • rossi02
    rossi02 Posts: 549 Member
    One that I've hard more times than I can count and still am perplexed over. "There's more than one way to skin a cat".. umm, I find one to be one too many. Why can't we just say, "there more than one way to resolve the problem you are dealing with". To the point and dosen't scar me with a horrible mental image.
  • ekz13
    ekz13 Posts: 725 Member
    "It could be worse"


    :huh:
  • janenightingale
    janenightingale Posts: 55 Member
    "Pot calling the kettle black". I understand the meaning, but I don't think I've seen many pots or kettles that are black?

    I used to get it mixed up and accidentally say, "Coffee calling the kettle black", because that made more sense hahah

    Also "Get over it". Oh thank you, kind sir! Now that you have said that, I feel so much better and don't care anymore!!

    This comes from the time when pots (saucepans, stewpots) and kettles were both put over an open fire or on a range so they would both be blackened by smoke
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    'You can't have your cake and eat it...'


    WHY NOT?! If you are going to give me cake and tell me I can't eat it then why give it to me in the first place.


    ....I now REALLY want some cake!

    ^^ I'm a brat. I want my cake AND I want to eat it. I'm totally selfish
  • jsmith1352
    jsmith1352 Posts: 9
    I deal with this also! A woman at work who is also a friend says this all the time!

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