Unusual catch phrases and sayings

[MenashaCorp]

'so cunning you could clean your teeth with it' -(blackadder reference, when you think of a good plan)

I have loads of quotes from blackadder i use in everyday life, on of them is the rhyming one, but im not sure if i can post it, being a family friendly board. Just to say 2 words rhyme with two other words to make a swear word.

Wish I could guess which one you mean... I *love* Blackadder. Speaking of cunning plans... "I have come up with a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel."

Here are a couple...
"Grinnin' like a mule eatin' briars"
"Nervous as a long-talied cat in a room full of rocking chairs"

And two I've never understood.. any ideas?
"Crazier than a ****house rat"
"To He** in a handbasket" What's so bad about handbaskets, anyway??

 

[wishspirit]

I fear the words "I have a cunning plan" are rapidly marching towards this conversation with ill-deserved confidence.


This is a crisis, a large crisis. In fact, if you've got a moment, it's a twelve-storey crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, carpeted throughout; twenty-four hour porterage and an enormous sign on the roof saying 'This is a Large Crisis'.


Percy: Fashion today is towards the tiny.
Edmund: Well in that case Percy, you have the most fashionable brain in London.


He's about as effective as a cat flap in an elephant house.


Yes. To you Baldrick, the rennaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?

 

[MenashaCorp]

"That it be" "Yes, it is, not 'that it be.' You don't have to talk in that stupid voice to me; I'm not a tourist."

"Allow me to be the first to offer Dr. Johnson my most sincere contrafibularities! I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulation."

"Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me and this pencil if we can't replace this dictionary."

 

[wishspirit]

"That it be" "Yes, it is, not 'that it be.' You don't have to talk in that stupid voice to me; I'm not a tourist."

"Allow me to be the first to offer Dr. Johnson my most sincere contrafibularities! I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulation."

"Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me and this pencil if we can't replace this dictionary."

lol!

Life without you is like a broken pencil....

pointless

 

[MomofKatie]

"We're off like a herd of turtles."

"Because I'm the Mommy!"

My dad swears he and his friends invented the phrase "all the bells and whistles" back in the 1940's.

 

[alysnwndrlnd]

My mom use to "spoonerize" the herd of turtles one..

"we're off like a terd of hurtles..."


My father said this at least one time and i got the feeling it was something he'd heard as a "saying".. but i've never heard it from any other source:

My parents poured a lot of time and resources into making sure that we kids had a good education, books, plenty of opportunities to learn, etc. but my brother never did "get it" and while registering his disgust with him for not using the opportunities/resources made available to him said:

"I BUY YOU BOOK AND BUY YOU BOOKS AND ALL YOU DO IS READ THE COVERS".

 

[UrsulasShadow]

"I should smile and kiss a pig."

Don't ask me what it means.

 

[bluecruiser]

Busier than a one-armed paper hanger in a windstorm.
Busier than a one-armed paper hanger with a case of the hives.
Busier than a one-legged man in a sack race.
Busier than a one-eyed man at a burlesque show.
Busier than a one-eyed cat watching two mouse holes.

 

[Tess'smom]

My ex-boss was from Texas and used to say when there was a problem:
"The ox is in the ditch now" and when an explaination didn't make sense "That dog don't hunt." It sounds a lot funnier with a Texan accent.

 

[shaq_d]

One that I hear every now and then is:

'other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?'

its usually in response to someone trying a little too hard to find a silver lining in a bad situation....

 

[Regina]

We were driving home from a family dinner on Christmas Eve with our future DIL who was raised in Charlotte. Her Mom called and she was raving about the baked ziti we had. To quote "It made you want to slap your Mama and make her cry."

 

[pklein09]

"if it had teeth it would bite you" (usually said when the thing you're looking for is in plain sight and within arms reach)

"it's nice to want" (also useful with kids)

"that's why they make chocolate *and* vanilla"

Not as funny as some of the others, but I had to share!

BTW, my MIL's cooking made *me* want to slap my momma and make her cry! (I'm going to have to use that one!)

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

My screen saver at work right now says:
"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge while others just gargle in it"

 

[Tess'smom]

These are soooo good. I hope I can remember some of them when appropriate.

 

[cslittle999]

My boss' boss has, "I'll listen to arguments but not endlessly" posted in his office.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

That reminds me of one I have hanging up in my office:

Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part.

This phrase, by the way, also works with my teenager.

 

[pklein09]

"Off like a prom dress!"

I heard the comment in this week's podcast and thought of you! I snorted too!

 

[NWOhioAngela]

Okay this one isn't common but it has a special place for me.

All my life, my grandfather would ask me: "what do you do, Angie? Walk to school or carry your lunch" ? This always bothered me--I could never figure it out and when we asked him he would just laugh.

Finally, in his last days, he laid in his death bed in the nursing home and I asked him, "Grandpa, all these years, you asked me "What do you do, walk to school or carry your lunch". You can't go until you tell me what that means!"

He kind of chuckled and said, "It means nothing, Ang. I was just bulls.-ing with you all these years". It's a great memory for me. He was a great BSer!

I can't wait to start pulling this one with my 2 year old grandson!

 

[SamIAm21]

If it had been a snake, it woulda bit ya!

I'm as serious as an Irish heartattack. (Are Irish heart attacks worse than German heart attacks???)

My Mom's favorite. Oh dear, bread and beer, if I were single, I wouldn't be here! My Dad didn't like that one much...

 

[aprince&princess]

My old friend had all kinds of saying. Her favorite was

"the best thing since sliced bread"

And when I was younger and would ask if something was cool, my fathers reply always was

"cooler than a moose".

I'm not sure how cool a moose is?