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11-29-20, 05:25 PM | #16 |
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My grandmother had a lot of funny sayings. I can't remember all of them. But one that always made me laugh was what she said when someone did something stupid:
"You ain't got the brains God gave a wooden goose!"
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11-29-20, 07:06 PM | #17 |
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"I'm drier than a pommie's bathmat".- Let's go and have a drink !
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11-29-20, 10:30 PM | #18 |
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Some i have heard float around in Texas... where much like our aussie friends, everything is bastardized english in which many things that wouldnt normally have a contraction, in fact do, and sometimes two or three, even four words flow together to form a sort of single sound.
"Its' Hotter'n two squirrels screwin'n'a whool sock!" - ie. very hot outside "Drunker'n Cooter Brown." - ie. Very drunk. "Runs lak-a-scalded dog (or; ape)." - ie. your car, motorcycle, etc is capable of great speed. "Fixin' to" - ie. i am preparing to do some task. (Fixin' to Eat - Fixin' to go to dinner etc) "Same difference" - an odd way of saying that two apparently different proposals or problems etc are in fact the same no matter which way you view them.
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11-30-20, 12:44 AM | #19 |
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What's the definition of pain: Teeth marks in the dunny door.
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11-30-20, 10:30 AM | #20 |
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Beat around the bush - To be indirect, and perhaps even reluctant or tricky, in saying or doing something.
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11-30-20, 10:46 AM | #21 |
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You're "dumber than a bag of hammers" or "slower than steam of 'poop'. I use those one a lot when I was in the service.
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12-01-20, 01:24 AM | #22 | |
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I heard these all the time growing up ... and still do. When I moved from southern to northern Virginia, people often asked me if I was from Kentucky or some such because I said things like "y'all" and "over yonder". I was constantly having to explain that I was from the very state we were in. Just goes to show how much language can vary ... even in a relatively small geographic area.
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12-01-20, 06:30 AM | #23 |
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Blow your socks off - Something which ‘blows your socks off’ is an astonishingly good thing.
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12-02-20, 12:40 PM | #24 |
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...not in Phuket! and "a hell of a 'git' you got''!
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12-02-20, 12:56 PM | #25 |
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12-02-20, 01:00 PM | #26 |
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To cost “an arm and a leg” - If something costs an arm and a leg, it’s very expensive.
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12-02-20, 05:25 PM | #27 |
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Some more Danish sayings.
The tip of a jet fighter Cost a farm These two is related to something that cost a lot of money. Markus |
12-03-20, 08:40 AM | #28 |
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To steal someone’s thunder - means to take credit for something someone else has done.
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12-04-20, 07:58 AM | #29 |
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"A few sandwiches short of a picnic" - Someone that lacks common sense might be described as "a few sandwiches short of a picnic."
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12-04-20, 09:57 AM | #30 |
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"Funker som juling" = "Works like a beating/thrashing" - Works real well
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