Sayings you just don't understand...

[Bill Douglas]

Six of one or half a dozen of the other, I think is quite good.

One I made up myself. Visibilty as far as the eye can see.

[widgeon13]

Don't know whether to shlt or go blind!

[kstar]

It is what it is.

[M.D. Holloway]

"You talk lika yankee boy, you a yankee?"

'Ya See?'

'know what I'm say'n?'

"Berfday" for Birthday

"Norf" for north

"axe" for ask

[M.D. Holloway]

or my all time fav...

"my fingers smell like pussy, here see for your self..."

[widgeon13]

That reminds me,

"There's two things that smell like fish and one of them is fish"

[sammyg2]

A couple of my favorites with the explanation as I understand it (discaimer, might be urban myths but they makes good stories):

"Go the whole nine yards" is supposed to refer to the British fighter pilots in the battle of Britain. Seems the hurricanes they were flying had ammo belts that were nine yards long and their orders were to go the whole nine yards, in other words don't come back until you are dead or out of ammo.

"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" does not mean what you might think, it is resportedly traced back to the time of the great navy battles of Great Britain and Spain. A brass monkey was a box that was bolted down next to the cannon. It was square and designed to hold a stacked pyramid of cannon balls, which were often made out of brass.

In extremely cold weather, water would accumulate in the brass monkey and freeze. When the water turned to ice it expanded, causing the cannon balls to fall off the stack and roll around.

[Moses]

Originally Posted by trekkor

"Fair to middlin' ". (?!?)

KT

"Fair" and "Middlin'" are grades of cotton.

These days that saying is about as useless as tits on a boar.

[Moses]

You're as helpless as a one legged man in an ass kickin' contest.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by Moses

You're as helpless as a one legged man in an ass kickin' contest.

Who's just like a hog on ice.

[craigster59]

"That dog don't hunt" = that won't work

"Now we're ****t1n' in tall cotton" = that will work

"I'm as nervous as a dog ****t1n' peach seeds" = ?????

Ones I hate:

"What up?"
"That's the bomb!"
"I know, huh!"
"...just barely"

[Dottore]

Fo shizzle, my nizzle

[Oh Haha]

You want a lickin'?

My Dad used to ask us kids that when we were in trouble.

Did you/who let one?
Again, dear ol' Dad asking us questions.

[ben parrish]

"That will stick like snot in a screen door"
I laughed so hard I thought I would cry when a friend said that as we were installing some laminate on a cabinet.
It was so funny to me because I know, from first hand experience as a kid, that luggies are next to impossible to get out of a screen door.
Gross, I know.

[K. Roman]

Is this about sayings you don't understand? Or saying you hate?

[rattlsnak]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

"Go the whole nine yards" is supposed to refer to the British fighter pilots in the battle of Britain. Seems the hurricanes they were flying had ammo belts that were nine yards long and their orders were to go the whole nine yards, in other words don't come back until you are dead or out of ammo.
.

Actually, it was US fighter pilots, and the ammo belt was indeed nine yards long, and when they got into a heated fight that seemd to last forever, or against someone for some reason didnt go down easy, or they were just plain pissed at someone!.. they would say, "I gave him the whole nine yards"..

Another,..... As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

[Danimal16]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" does not mean what you might think, it is resportedly traced back to the time of the great navy battles of Great Britain and Spain. A brass monkey was a box that was bolted down next to the cannon. It was square and designed to hold a stacked pyramid of cannon balls, which were often made out of brass.

In extremely cold weather, water would accumulate in the brass monkey and freeze. When the water turned to ice it expanded, causing the cannon balls to fall off the stack and roll around.

Very close, the brass monkey was a tray that had indentations for the bottom layer of iron cannon ball. The coefficient of expansion for iron and brass being as different as they are, in extremely cold weather the ball and tray (monkey) would deform and essentially the ball would "pop" out of the monkey when the ship rolled.

[Danimal16]

Fubar

[boba]

That's like pushing a rope up a bobcats ass.

[obrut]

one of my faves: "let's run it up the flagpole and see if the cat licks it"

drawing a long bow - i think it means let us give it a try?