Sayings you just don't understand...

[azasadny]

"like" and "actually"...

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by Paul T

"axe" for ask drives me insane...

That's just an Americanism along with di'ent for didn't, Warshington for Washington, foy-er for foy-yay, filet mig-non for filet min-yon (slight second n only please) . . .

Ian

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by imcarthur

That's just an Americanism

"Ax" used in the place of "ask" is not "an Americanism."

It's ebonics.

[holtjv]

"Stupid is as stupid does."

I have no idea what that means at the end of the day.

[notfarnow]

"Busier that a w#ore with two beds"

Here's one I can't figure out, but my father in law says all the time... uses it when something is WAY easier than expected:

"Like $hit through a tin horn!"

[widgeon13]

Tighter than a nats a$$ stretched over a rain barrel.

[peppy]

that will put lead in your pencil

sweating like a whore in church on sunday

cussing a blue streak

that will knock your *&%k in you watch pocket

[rcooled]

Does the Pope shlt in the woods?

-or-

Is the bear Catholic?

[Amail]

Originally Posted by rcooled

Does the Pope shlt in the woods?

-or-

Is the bear Catholic?

-or-

Does the Pope shlt on the Catholics?

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by K. Roman

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

Follow along. PPOT never really answers the original question w/o quite a bit of, well....OT.

OK, if you must, I don't understand this one. "Cuter that a bug's ear." I've never seen a cute insect, much less an ear. Maybe they are taking about Disney characters.

[Amail]

We had a woman from the UK giving a presentation on risk assessment. Her frequent use of UK-centric sayings got some of us curious, so we asked her about some.

One was "Fill your boots", which apparently means to take full advantage of a situation. When asked about the origins of "Everything going pear-shaped", she said it means when things go suddenly badly, but didn't know the origins. I said it came from 19th century boiler technology, which was in its infancy. When a boiler is about to rupture, the bottom will swell, going pear-shaped.

I then explained that I had just made it up on the spot, but nobody heard that part, so I fully expect to see the explanation in wikipedia some day.

[Vern Lyle]

Overheard in Tennessee:

I wouldn't trust him with a spoon in a ****thouse.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

[vash]

a UK saying;

"it all went pear shaped"

wtf?

[Heel n Toe]

"The fact of the matter is..."

Ugh.

That one got started up by politicos and talking heads. I think it was invented to stall for time while they're thinking up a way to parse an answer to a question.

Now lots of morons use it, and it just needs to go away.

It came along about the same time as "there's not a shred of evidence that..." another parsing miracle phrase.

Yes, Hillary (or Bill) we know there isn't a shred of evidence. Well, maybe there is, but it's in the landfill by now.

[widgeon13]

"Be that as it may"

WTF?

[Brian 162]

sup

It's all good

[Wangrande]

That's a whole nuther story.

[holtjv]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

another parsing miracle phrase.

"Parsing" anything but data just doesn't make sense. But I guess that few of these
phrases makes any sense.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Danimal16

Fubar

fuched up beyond all recognition, what is wrong with that?

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?

you down with o.p.p.
other people's property(alternatively, *******)


meaning, are you okay with stealing, or chasing someone else's cat, so to speak
none of these expressions really bother me much, some are freakin' hilarious,

the whore sweatin' in church is funny to me

[Porsche-O-Phile]

"Head over heels". Umm. That's the way it normally works unless you walk around inverted all day.