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Idioms You Thought Were Commonplace, but People Didn’t Know
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:32 am
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:32 am
Yesterday I was talking to a co-worker and said, “We missed a great opportunity to exploit this, we had them dead to rights.” He stared at me for about a minute because he had no clue what dead to rights meant...
What other simple idioms or colloquialisms have you used and people didn’t know?
What other simple idioms or colloquialisms have you used and people didn’t know?
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Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:34 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
When in Rome
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:35 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Germans
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:35 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
quote:
He stared at me for about a minute
That's an exaggeration
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:36 am to PipelineBaw
Whales Vagina.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:39 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
"It's over your head."
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:40 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
When you ask an Australian how they are doing, they answer "Flat out, like a lizard pissing". I was not aware of what this meant when I first heard it.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:41 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I used the idiom, “Penny Wise, Pound Foolish” the other day at work and you would have thought my coworkers were sitting next to Walt Whitman
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:42 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
This gets worse as you get older. I told my kids “ she went bananas “ and they laughed at me.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:42 am to Hangit
quote:
When you ask an Australian how they are doing, they answer "Flat out, like a lizard pissing". I was not aware of what this meant when I first heard it.
usually when you ask a semi rhetorical question, you can understand what the response means irregardless of what words are used
This post was edited on 1/21/19 at 8:45 am
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:42 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
“.....like Sherman through Georgia “. In reference to a fellow that ran through a fortune
This post was edited on 1/21/19 at 8:59 am
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:43 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
For all intensive purposes
If so in fact so
If so in fact so
This post was edited on 1/21/19 at 8:47 am
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:43 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Nobody knows what robbing Peter to pay Paul means anymore.
Crack open a bible, you snowflakes.
Crack open a bible, you snowflakes.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:45 am to cykablyat
quote:
Nobody knows what robbing Peter to pay Paul means anymore.
Crack open a bible, you snowflakes.
Seems like they could pick up on it just with the context
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:49 am to PipelineBaw
quote:
When in Rome
This one can get you in trouble these days.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:49 am to Bigfishchoupique
quote:
“Sherman through Georgia “. In reference to a fellow that ran through a fortune
This is a good one.
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:52 am to PipelineBaw
quote:....... please continue..
When in Rome
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:53 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I once told 2 flirting Mexican co-workers to cut the grabassing and they went quiet and stared at me like they were in trouble
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:55 am to madddoggydawg
quote:
I once told 2 flirting Mexican co-workers to cut the grabassing and they went quiet and stared at me like they were in trouble
I wonder how many know what you mean when you say "you sound like a broken record"
Posted on 1/21/19 at 8:55 am to fr33manator
"if so in fact so"
Ipso facto?
Ipso facto?
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