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Jimbuna 02-05-21 08:26 AM

"Take the biscuit" - If someone has done something highly irritating or surprising in an exasperating fashion, you might say that they've "taken the biscuit."

Eisenwurst 02-07-21 06:34 AM

"Mad as a 2 Bob Watch" :- Completely insane, also a product very poorly/stupidly made.

Jimbuna 02-07-21 09:37 AM

"Tickety-boo" - Something that is "tickety-boo" is satisfactory and in good order.

August 02-07-21 02:00 PM

"Knock it off!" An American term used since the 1800's to tell someone to immediately cease some usually irritating or disruptive activity.


Example:


Person A: (Starts humming a dirty song in Church)

Person B: "Knock if off with your blasphemy Earl!


It originated as a request to an auctioneer to end the bidding (by knocking his gavel).

Jimbuna 02-07-21 02:53 PM

"Waffle" - When someone makes a great speech while skirting around a subject or saying little of any value, you might say that they're talking "waffle," or that they're "waffling."

Texas Red 02-07-21 09:46 PM

“Stop the cap!” popular among young kids. Cap means lying, so you are essentially saying “Stop lying!”

“That’s so extra!” popular among my peers too, extra means unnecessary. So they are saying “that is so unnecessary”

Sean C 02-08-21 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2728223)
"Tickety-boo" - Something that is "tickety-boo" is satisfactory and in good order.


:har: Alright, now I think you're just making these up.


Edit: My wife just pointed out the American phrase "hunky-dory", which means pretty much the same thing. I had forgotten about that one.

Jimbuna 02-08-21 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean C (Post 2728481)
:har: Alright, now I think you're just making these up.


Edit: My wife just pointed out the American phrase "hunky-dory", which means pretty much the same thing. I had forgotten about that one.

Used mostly down south as opposed to up north (Gods country).

Jimbuna 02-08-21 08:49 AM

"Wally" - Someone silly or incompetent might be described as a wally.

Aktungbby 02-08-21 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean C (Post 2728481)
:har: Alright, now I think you're just making these up.


Edit: My wife just pointed out the American phrase "hunky-dory", which means pretty much the same thing. I had forgotten about that one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2728499)
Used mostly down south as opposed to up north (Gods country).

I've occasionally announced on auspicious occasions that "my 'hinky-dory' is 'tickety-boo" and used to visit a small bar near the family lake cabin in Wisconsin called the Hunky Dory. I always knew it meant swell but thought it referred to a 'dory' ie a small but trim rowboat...:hmmm:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ghtened%29.jpg

Jimbuna 02-08-21 01:34 PM

Here's me thinking it was Bowies fourth studio album :doh:

Quote:

The whole Hunky Dory album reflected my newfound enthusiasm for this new continent that had been opened up to me. That was the first time a real outside situation affected me so 100 percent that it changed my way of writing and the way I look at things.[9]
– David Bowie discussing how America impacted the album, 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunky_Dory

Aktungbby 02-08-21 04:18 PM

...having 'Fallen to Earth' too many times can alter a Man's concept of hunky-doriness!:D

Catfish 02-08-21 04:52 PM

^ yes, he did not succeed and became spoilt as (and by) the human race :shucks:

bstanko6 02-09-21 01:57 AM

In an American jail, when an inmate can’t believe something is true he says:

“Man, that is some ho a$& sh@&!!”

Jimbuna 02-09-21 08:38 AM

"Wangle" - If you've "wangled" something, you've accomplished or attained something through cunning means.


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