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re: Cliches/Sayings that do not make sense

Posted on 4/3/19 at 4:52 pm to
Posted by TigerNAtux
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
18309 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 4:52 pm to
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”

Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
52938 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 4:53 pm to
Because it's supposed to be "you can't eat your cake and have it too". Somehow it got flipped around.
Posted by ForeverEllisHugh
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
16129 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 5:01 pm to
“Whistling past the graveyard”

It’s supposed to mean willful ignorance of a real threat, but graveyards are only scary because of our imagination.
Posted by TigerNAtux
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
18309 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 5:06 pm to
Either way. It’s dumb.
Posted by List Eater
Htown
Member since Apr 2005
23693 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 5:36 pm to
Making groceries
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
138029 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 5:39 pm to
quote:

Lingerer
Posted by Jake88
Member since Apr 2005
77691 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 5:44 pm to
quote:

If you ain’t first you’re last
This isn't a real cliche/saying, it was a purposely stupid fictional saying made up for a movie.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
100040 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 6:43 pm to
Cold as hell



Hell is not cold at all
Posted by Ole War Skule
North Shore
Member since Sep 2003
3409 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 6:44 pm to
quote:

Maybe I just don’t give a shite about what you’re involved with?



which makes you are of the problem!
Posted by TechBullDawg
Member since May 2014
2019 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:14 pm to
Near miss
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
119970 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 7:22 pm to
Don't stick your dick in anything you wouldn't stick in a blender.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
20775 posts
Posted on 4/3/19 at 8:17 pm to
“I’m sweating like a dog.”

Dogs don’t sweat. Neither do hogs, which are also sometimes used in that one.
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