Sayings you just don't understand...

[varmint]

"down with o.p.p."

the phrase has now disappeared from common usage. but was everywhere for about six months ten years ago. what the hell did it mean?

[M.D. Holloway]

oh no you didn't!


now thats tighter than a duck's ass and thats water tight!

[74-911]

Originally Posted by craigster59

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

Growing up on a cotton farm in N. TX (and I think this applies to most all of the South), life could be defined with two phrases:

High or Tall Cotton: life is good
Long row to hoe: life is not so good.. and if you've ever chopped cotton you know exactly what that means.

[Heel n Toe]

I understand these sayings... but they're spoken by people who don't know what they're saying.

Originally Posted by Schumi

"Irregardless" is just wrong, but I heard people say it all the time. What they mean is 'regardless' meaning 'not having any regard'. Irregardless would mean, on the contrary, having regard.

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"Unthaw" is also just wrong.

"First you take it out of the freezer and unthaw it for a day in the fridge."

What is meant is "thaw," meaning change it from frozen to not frozen. Unthaw would mean the opposite.
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"Hot water heater" is another one.

There is no such thing as a hot water heater.

It's a water heater, dumba$$. Look on the box it came in if you don't believe me.
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This last one is regional; I have a friend in CT who says, "I need to bring my kid to soccer practice after she gets out of school."

No, you need to take your kid to soccer practice.

The only way you could bring your kid to soccer practice is if you were already at the soccer field and your kid was hooked to one end of a long steel cable and the other end was hooked to a winch on the front bumper of your car, and you turned on the winch.

[cl8ton]

Originally Posted by milt

"Well, no, yes." How many do you know that can start a sentence with that?

Scott Speed used that phrase on every sentence he started while in Formula 1

My favorite is...
"It's not that I need the money, the people I owe it to need it"

[84porsche]

Originally Posted by varmint

"down with o.p.p."

the phrase has now disappeared from common usage. but was everywhere for about six months ten years ago. what the hell did it mean?

This was from a song - Naughty by Nature - O.P.P. - Other people's property is what I believe the meaning is.

[ikarcuaso]

Originally Posted by 84porsche

This was from a song - Naughty by Nature - O.P.P. - Other people's property is what I believe the meaning is.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=opp&defid=1101517

What means "neither here nor there" ?

Also, when people say "vi-sa versa" instead of "vice versa" bugs me. Kinda like "i could care less" (previously mentioned)

[Mothy]

"And she didn't get lips like that sucking ice cream."

[mschuep]

"what happened?"

we had an intern who worked for our firm that would use this simple phrase in place of all other questions.

If he didn't hear you he would say "what happened?"
If he didn't understand a topic you were explaning he would say "what happened?"
If he didn't understanc/know the words coming out of your mouth he would say "what happened?"

...it was quite frustrating. Since that time I have noticed others abusing this phrase as well...

[Heel n Toe]

Another needlessly wordy phrase:

"I have no idea."

Just say, "I don't know."

Please.

[Buckterrier]

"Tighter than a tic in a teddy bear"

[Monza_dh]

Any time I hear one of my sales reps say "to be perfectly honest with you" I want to kill them.

So have they been lying all along????

If I hear them say it in front of cusomers they have to pay $100 to a local charity.

[Buckterrier]

"Hornier than a 3 peckered billygoat" How horny is a 3 peckered billygoat anyway??

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by Monza_dh

Any time I hear one of my sales reps say "to be perfectly honest with you" I want to kill them.

Or better yet "to be honest with you, at the end of the day...."

WTF? As opposed to in the morning?

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Buckterrier

"Hornier than a 3 peckered billygoat" How horny is a 3 peckered billygoat anyway??

not sure I want to find out

Be That As It May.

[pavulon]

you must be ****tin' me

[rattlsnak]

The worst one of all,...

I have to pi$$ worse than a rushing racehorse.

[KaptKaos]

I'm just sayin'

[legion]

I used to have a manager that would end his sentences with: "If you will."

Then of course, there is "bear with me"...

[Paul T]

My Dad always says, "I'm busier than a one armed paper hanger"..

"axe" for ask drives me insane...