May 12, 2011

  • Idioms

    I just commented on someones site
    "You have it made in the shade"
    we used to always say that when someone had it good.

    My favorite idiom is
    "Let's get outta Dodge"

    I say that anytime I am ready to leave.
    and
    "Uglier than homemade soap" (See my post HERE on that one)

    I love to use idioms, especially older ones that are less heard.
     
    Some I use often
    Smart cookie
    Hotter than a two dollar pistol
    Old as the hills or Older than God
    Madder than a wet hen
    Bigger than my butt (that one I made up!)
    Colder than a witches tit
    Black as the ace of spades
    Right as rain
    Tackier than a pimp
    All over you like.... a cheap suit or white on rice
    Tighter than a spandex jumpsuit (I thought of this one too!)

    What are your most commonly used idioms?

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Comments (69)

  • i love idioms ... made in the shade ... walking in tall cotton ... hard row to hoe ... tighter than the bark on a tree ... made up like a $2 whore ... wound up like a $2 top [lotta $2's ... we musta been po']... all dressed up and nowhere to go ... uglier than the north end of a southbound chicken ... skatin' on thin ice ... these are oldies i still use ...

  • I'll have to think about that one. I don't like overused cliches.

  • Dear Beth,

    It just so happens I wrote a blog entry on "personal catchphrases" last year. It's around here somewhere.....let me see.....oh, HERE IT IS. I've been saying "dig this" since the late 60s, and whenever something goes right, like a panel I'm testing at work doesn't need reworking, I say "wunnerful wunnerful."

    I also use what I've always called "truisms" or "homilies" when writing, (The golden rule is the most famous of these: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)

    Entries like this are pretty original. Certainly not a dime a dozen. Some of the stuff I read on Xanga is all greek to me. You remain the apple of my eye.

    Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool

  • Dear Beth,

    Writing a comment on this entry was a piece of cake.

    Michael F. Nyiri,poet,philosopher, fool

    (I've got to stop now. And go to work.)

  • I like making them up.

    Like a gay, 100lb asian guy at a hot dog eating contest. (obviously it'd be really good, but saying that might get me kicked in the nuts, and I'm not saying that because they all know kung fu.) hmm... that might be more idiocy.

    Breaking the ice, tear it up, hammered, kick it, chillin', and one of my favorites, the bee's knees. No wonder English is so difficult to learn. Most of what we say is complete nonsense.

  • Idioms are a wonderful and sometimes comical way to express ones self.

  • Down the road a piece
    Hold your panties on
    Hold onto your pantaloons/panties!
    Don't get your panties in a bunch.  (I'm noticing a trend....)
    Quick like a bunny/like a bunny on Sunday!
    In two shakes of a lamb's tail
    Scare the bejesus out of someone
    Time flies like the wind.  Fruit flies like bananas.
    Bottom basement bargain bin
    It's a tit bit nippley.
    Just a tit bit/wee bit.
    How do you like them apples?
    Peanut gallery
    Armchair -insert profession-
    For the time being
    Full of crap
    Pulling something out of your ass
    Slower than molasses in January
    Costs an arm and a leg
    Two sides of the same coin
    Baby boomer
    Don't burn bridges
    Old hat
    Stuff your pie hole
    Jack-of-all-trades
    Renaissance man
    Beat a dead horse
    Close but no cigar
    Bleeding heart
    Down-to-earth
    John Hancock
    Spur of the moment
    Elbow grease
    Get it off your chest
    Head over heels
    Jump down someone's throat
    Piece of cake
    Grass is always greener
    Bee's knees
    Black sheep of the family
    Rings a bell
    Strikes a chord
    Son of a bitch
    Pedal to the metal
    Get the hang of it
    You get what you play for
    Bite someone's head off
    Old wive's tale
    In a pickle

  • I love to say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. It makes me laugh. I really like to say, Oh wait a minute, you are skating on thin ice. You reap what you sow is one I heard all the time growing up and I still believe that.

  • Riding herd or riding shotgun I don't think have been used. I use "riding shotgun" to refer to the person in the front passenger seat.

    "I'm gonna drop you like a bad habit". "That sucks hind tit". I use that one a lot when something doesn't perform up to expectations.

  • @spinner_mom - i use that a lot too. because there are so many hypocrites

  • In regards to a busy day, 'we gotta hit the ground runnin' and 'stop burnin daylight, Jon'!

  • Off like a prom dress.

  • I was just talking to someone about this the other day.  There are calls we have to make at work - and we all hate doing them!  Every time I have to stand there for an hour or two and make them, I always feel like a broken record - and generally say so.  This past weekend, we were talking about whether or not our children (we are all under 30) will even understand why that phrase ever came about!

  • Hey Arnold! has a character who uses farmer idioms all the time. Here is one I made out of the blue, "dirtier than an unshaved negro." Abigail Adams also use many idioms.

  • a lot such : the best is the ennemy of the good ! and others .....

    Love

    Michel

  • "Bummer in the Summer", and "No way Jose" which Bart Simpson stole.

  • I use the white on rice one a lot.  I know I use some others, but they are so ingrained I can't even think of them.  They just pop out of my mouth when the time is right. rofl

  • "like ugly on an ape" was one my grandpa uses a lot.

  • Love this blog! Probably... well, now ain't that a fine kettle of fish!  Oh, and beating a dead horse.. a fly in the ointment.. 

  • I don't know which ones I used more,   I will have to think about it.

  • If someone complained a lot my dad would say "he'd bitch if he was hung with a new rope"

  • Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

  • "How bout that sunshine" -ME

  • i love idioms. i have a book that has them in alphabetical order, with the likely origin. it's always interesting to see where they came from. 

  • "I love you like a fat kid loves cake!"

    I'm sure there are more that I use semi-regularly, but that's the first one that came to mind.  :)

  • I say "quick like a bunny" to get people to hurry and "make a silk purse from a sow's ear" to describe finding the bright side of a situation. I'm sure ther are others but these are the ones on the tip of my tongue...

  • Her feathers are ruffled.

    Meaner than a junkyard dog.

    Bigger than Texas and half the state of Georgia. (the size of my brownie the other day)

  • haha

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