Cat got your tongue?

[C0LLETTE]

"screw you"


self explanatory.

[homoe]

"screw you"


self explanatory.



......:giggle:......

[homoe]

"Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb / "Stand Out Like A Sore Thumb"


If someone or something sticks out like a sore thumb or stands out like a sore thumb, they are very noticeable because they are very different from the other people or things around them. To be very conspicuous; be very obvious or noticeable in an unpleasant way.

[homoe]

"Head And Shoulders Above"


If someone or something is head and shoulders above other people or things, he, she, or it is a lot better than them: There's no competition or contest; it's a given.

[homoe]

"To Be In Good Company"...



If you are in good company, other people, often respected people, are in the same situation as you.

[Stone-Butch]

My grandmother use to say about not so well bred person was

Bottom Drawer....... means of low character

[puddin']

once in a blue moon

[homoe]

"Take The Wind Out Of Someone's Sails"....


To thwart or minimize someone's attempt at raising a ruckus or creating chaos.

[homoe]

"A Sleep At The Wheel". ...


Not doing or paying attention to that which is important or for which one is responsible. Failing to attend to one's duties; to be inattentive to that which is important or for which one is responsible.

[homoe]

"Gravy" / "Anything Else Is Gravy" / "The Rest Is Just Gravy"


A positive occurrence, typically beyond one's hopes or expectations; a bonus. Any additional elements will be an unexpected or unrequired bonus. Typically said of additional monetary earnings, but often applied in other ways as well



Sidebar: This originated from an Old English saying. Life, it explained, is meat and potatoes, and the luxuries are gravy.

[homoe]

"Loaded For Bear"....




Angry and, as a result, usually ready to argue with someone; prepared for action; also, spoiling for a fight.

[homoe]

"If The Shoe Fits"......


If something applies to you, accept it.


Sidebar: I may have previously posted this proverb but I can't recall. I saw it in one of the threads today so I must credit the poster. As a second sidebar, another of my favorite greeting cards has the saying on the front of the card with shoes surrounding it, on the inside it says "buy it"...LOL

[homoe]

"Put A Lid On It"...........



To keep something under control and stop it from increasing. To be quiet; to stop talking about something.

[homoe]

"Stir Up A Hornets' Nest".


Make trouble, cause a commotion. To create, provoke, or trigger a dangerous, troublesome, or complicated situation.

[C0LLETTE]

" Pile-on "

"to join other people in criticizing something or someone in usually an unfair way"

Websters

[homoe]

"Park Yourself"...


To sit; directing or ordering someone to grab a seat and sit down!


Sidebar: I doubt this is an actual idiom but my mom used to say this all the time especially when us kids were rambunctious!

[C0LLETTE]

"In the dark all cats are grey"

Make of that what you will lol

[homoe]

"Off The Cuff"..........


Casually and spontaneously; without planning or preparation.

[homoe]

"Slip Of The Tongue"


An error in speaking in which a word is pronounced incorrectly, or in which the speaker says something unintentionally.

[homoe]

"Familiarity Breeds Contempt".......



Repeated exposure to someone or something often creates a contentious relationship.

[C0LLETTE]

Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Winston Churchill

[homoe]

"Fit The Bill"......


To be helpful, useful, or what is needed in a certain situation at a certain time.

[homoe]

~~
"You Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks"......
It's nearly impossible to teach some new skills or behaviors to someone who is set in their ways.

If you say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, you mean that it is often difficult to get people to try new ways of doing things, especially if they have been doing something in a particular way for a long time.

[homoe]

~~
"Like A Dog With A Bone"........


To be fixated on a particular topic. To refuse to stop talking or thinking about something.

[C0LLETTE]

"pies ci mordę lizał!" Polish for : Dog lick your face ... literally. (a humourous way to tell someone to get lost.

[homoe]

"Strike While The Iron's Hot" / "Make Hay While The Sun Shines"


To take advantage of favorable conditions; to make the most of an opportunity when it is available.

[homoe]

"Now You're Cooking With Gas"......



Doing something exactly right. To have success in a particular activity.

Sidebar: In the 1930's, the catch phrase Now you're cooking with gas, meaning “you're on the right track,” was heard on popular radio shows at the behest of the natural gas industry, as part of a quiet marketing push for gas-powered stoves.

[homoe]

"once bitten twice shy"



Means that once somebody has gotten hurt or had something go wrong, they will be afraid to try it again (especially in love).

[C0LLETTE]

" You don't miss your water till your well runs dry"

Means: you better start being nicer to me or I'm going to leave your ass high and dry over that cliff there yonder.

[homoe]

"When Pigs Fly"........


Pigs cannot fly. This often sarcastic idiom is commonly used to mean that whatever you are discussing will never happen.


Sidebar: A similar saying was first used in Scotland in the late 1500s and a version of which even appeared in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland.

[homoe]

"You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Pig's Ear".....



Be unable to turn something ugly or inferior into something attractive.

[C0LLETTE]

"spitting image"

When I looked this phrase up, here's what I got:

"as like the papists, as if they had beene spit out of their mouthes. So it would appear that the metaphor of spitting something out of one's mouth gradually shifted to become the very spit of (something), which then turned into spit and image, which in turn became spitten image and settled on spitting image...."


say what?

[Bèsame*]

yeah right

Used to negate something you just said

[C0LLETTE]

et tu Brute?

you too Brutus?

[homoe]

"You Can Lead A Horse To Water But You Can't Make Him Drink It"..........



You can give someone an advantage or provide them with an opportunity, but you can't force them to do something if they don't want to. Even favorable circumstances won't force one to do something one doesn't want to.

[Trinket_the_mouse2020]

We called that Bum Fucked Egypt... No idea why

we do too in the mid-west

[C0LLETTE]

road less travelled

less popular choice

[homoe]

"don't hold your breath".......



Holding one’s breath back in expectation. Used to indicate that something is likely to take a long time.

[homoe]

"Get Someone's Goat"........



To annoy someone, to make a person lose his or her temper.

Sidebar: This term is definitely American in origin, but its precise provenance has been lost. H. L. Mencken was told that it came from the practice of putting a goat inside a skittish racehorse’s stall in order to calm it down. Removing the goat shortly before the race would upset the horse and reduce its chances of winning, a ruse supposedly planned by a gambler who had bet on the horse’s losing.

[homoe]

"I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle"



This idiom is used to express complete surprise, amazement or disbelief. An expression of surprise or amazement.

[homoe]

"Lined Up Like Cord-wood".........


Any items lined up in a neat and tidy way. Usually it a vast amount of one certain item.

[homoe]

"I Need That Like A Whole In My Head".......



A superfluous item, something one does not want at all. To have absolutely no need or use for something.

[homoe]

"I Need That Like A Whole In My Head".......



A superfluous item, something one does not want at all. To have absolutely no need or use for something.

And yes of course that should of been "Hole"! Thanks to the many that pointed that out......:giggle:

[homoe]

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished".......


A sardonic commentary on the frequency with which acts of kindness backfire on those who offer them. In other words, those who help others are doomed to suffer as a result of their being helpful.

[homoe]

"Fix Someone's Wagon"...


To take retaliatory action against someone. Get even with someone, get revenge on someone, spoil someone's chance of success.

[cathexis]

She hung the moon.
AND
She's the bee's knees.

Both mean that they're something fabulous.

[homoe]

"Early Bird Gets The Worm"..


One who arrives first has the best chance for success. Someone who is very active and alert in the early hours of the morning is apt to find success.

[homoe]

"Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch"......


You should not assume that what you think will happen will happen!

[Stone-Butch]

ruffle (one's) feathers

To annoy, irritate, or upset someone. ... Don't let her ruffle your feathers like that!

[Stone-Butch]

Definition of flip one's wig

: to become crazy or very angry
His mother flipped her wig when she saw what a mess he'd made.

[C0LLETTE]

Rub his nose in it...

What Biden should do to Trump....

[Stone-Butch]

don't put all your eggs in one basket
phrase of egg
PROVERB
don't risk everything on the success of one venture.

[Stone-Butch]

Don't question the value of a gift. The proverb refers to the practice of evaluating the age of a horse by looking at its teeth. This practice is also the source of the expression “long in the tooth,” meaning old.

[Stone-Butch]

Origin of Stick in the Mud

This expression originated in the early 1700s. The idea behind is clear, alluding to a vehicle (at the time, a horse drawn carriage) whose wheels were stuck in the mud. Someone who is a stick in the mud doesn't want to try new things.

[homoe]

"Packed In Like Sardines".......


If a group of people are packed like sardines, they are standing very close together because there is not enough room in an enclosed space.

Very tightly or snugly packed together, especially in a small space; pressed tightly together in a way that is uncomfortable or unpleasant.

[Stone-Butch]

The phrase “paint the town red” most likely owes its origin to one legendary night of drunkenness. In 1837, the Marquis of Waterford—a known lush and mischief maker—led a group of friends on a night of drinking through the English town of Melton Mowbray. The bender culminated in vandalism after Waterford and his fellow revelers knocked over flowerpots, pulled knockers off of doors and broke the windows of some of the town’s buildings. To top it all off, the mob literally painted a tollgate, the doors of several homes and a swan statue with red paint. The marquis and his pranksters later compensated Melton for the damages, but their drunken escapade is likely the reason that “paint the town red” became shorthand for a wild night out. Still yet another theory suggests the phrase was actually born out of the brothels of the American West, and referred to men behaving as though their whole town were a red-light district.

[homoe]

"Don 't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth"




Don't find fault with something that has been received as a gift or favor. Don't be ungrateful when you receive a present, even if it's not exactly what you wanted.

[homoe]

"Have Egg On Your Face".........




To be very embarrassed because of something you said or did: look foolish.

[homoe]

"Shoot Yourself In The Foot".....



To damage or impede one's own plans, progress, or actions through foolish actions or words. Foolishly harm one's own agenda: cause yourself trouble by being stupid.

[Stone-Butch]

To beat around the bush.

Not wanting to give an outright opinion of your own.




Spill the beans. OR Let the cat out of the bag.

The secret is out.

[homoe]

"At A Drop Of A Hat"..........


To do something at the drop of a hat means to do it immediately, without delay and at the slightest provocation; on the slightest signal or at urging.


Sidebar: This idiom may have come from the American Old West, when various fights, contests, and duels began with a signal consisting of a man grabbing his hat and thrusting it toward the ground.

[homoe]

"The Cat's Meow"


Something or someone highly enjoyable, desirable, or impressive, especially in a fancy or elaborate way. Often used as a term of endearment.

[homoe]

"Get The Lay of The Land".............


By extension, the particular state, arrangement, or condition of something; the way a situation exists or has developed. Finding out or investigating how a situation is handled before making a commitment.

[puddin']

bob's your uncle

Robert Cecil (Bob) gave his nephew the job of the Chief Secretary when he was the Prime Minister which gave rise to the expression. It was used enviously for someone who achieved something in a simple manner without having to work hard for it. The phrase is used informally. The meaning is now only to point at something that can be achieved easily and the sarcasm from the phrase is no longer in use. This idiomatic expression is mainly used in Great Britain and Australia.

[homoe]

"Falling/Coming Apart At The Seams".............



To be approaching failure: to become very emotional. To become very emotional, especially with sadness or grief.

[homoe]

"Sit Tight"....




To wait patiently: to wait without taking any immediate action.
If you sit tight, you stay in the same place or situation and wait to see how it develops before taking any action.

[Stone-Butch]

I am sure you have heard it said, "hotter than the hobs of hell"

The hob of a fireplace is proverbially a black hot place, as is Hell; logically the hottest and blackest part of Hell should be its hobs. (VSD)

[homoe]

"You can't win for losing"




The elaboration "You can't win for losing," with its added play on logic, was around in the 1960s. It means that losing keeps you from winning; you can't win because things keep going wrong. People would say it when something unexpected or a bit of bad luck spoiled their plans.

[homoe]

"It takes two to tango"...



Meaning: Both parties involved in a situation or argument are responsible for it.

[homoe]

"Tip Of The Iceberg"......


The idiom 'tip of the iceberg' basically means the small part of a much larger situation or problem that remains hidden. Only a small, often unrepresentative portion of something much larger.

Sidebar: This comes from the fact that only the tip of an iceberg can be seen and the rest of the iceberg, which is much larger, is underneath the water and cannot be seen.

[Stone-Butch]

Caught between a rock and a hard place

Meaning: Making a choice between two unpleasant choices

[homoe]

"There's Never A Road So Long Without A Curve"



Tho things so smoothly for a time, at some point there will be an upset.

[Stone-Butch]

He knew that she had 'flown the coup"----- Left


"Poor as a church mouse"------ really poor

[homoe]

"A Feather In Your Cap"............

An accomplishment or achievement that one takes pride in:


Sidebar: The term a feather in your cap is an English idiomatic phrase believed to have derived from the general custom in some cultures of a warrior adding a new feather to their head-gear for every enemy slain, or in other cases from the custom of establishing the success of a hunter as being the first to bag a game bird by plucking off the feathers of that prey and placing them in the hat band. The phrase today has altered to a more peaceful allusion, where it is used to refer to any laudable success or achievement by an individual that may help that person in the future.

[homoe]

"Bought-the-farm"

To have died.


Sidebar: It comes from a 1950s-era Air Force term meaning “to crash” or “to be killed in action,” and refers to the desire of many wartime pilots to stop flying, return home, buy a farm, and live peaceably ever after.

[homoe]

"Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush"........


A sure thing is always better than a maybe!

[Stone-Butch]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Where one sees beauty another may not.

[homoe]

"Putting The Cart Before The Horse".......

The expression cart before the horse is an idiom used to suggest something is done contrary to a convention or culturally expected order or relationship. A cart is a vehicle that is ordinarily pulled by a horse, so to put the cart before the horse is an analogy for doing things in the wrong order.

To have things confused and mixed up.

[homoe]

"Play Your Cards Right".....

To act adeptly and with good judgement; to make the best and most effective use of the resources at one's disposal: to make the most advantageous use of one’s opportunities.

Sidebar: Card-playing was popular in England from the mid-sixteenth century on, and terms from card games soon began to be transferred to other activities. This one appeared in print in Samuel Foote’s The Englishman in Paris (1753): “If Lucinda plays her cards well, we have not much to fear.”

[homoe]

"Sticking It" to someone...


To intensely confront, punish, or retaliate against someone, perhaps vindictively or with unnecessary severity.

[homoe]

"That Takes The Cake".......


That which is the very worst in a series of negative actions or events: be the most outstanding in some respect, either the best or the worst.

[homoe]

"A Step Ahead"..
A little bit more prepared, skilled, or successful than someone or something else; able to outmaneuver or outpace someone or something.

Sidebar:
Since at least the 19th century, one step ahead referred to a literal step forward. Early evidence for its metaphorical use comes in the late 1800s. An 1876 religious anthropology text, for instance, describes Hindu theology taking “one step ahead of the philosophic thought of primitive man,” the phrase using walking as a metaphor for advancement.

The phrase was in common idiomatic use in the 20th-century, widely found in a range of written texts by the 1980s. One step ahead commonly appears in the longer phrase, one step ahead of the game, referring to someone who is more prepared or able to beat the competition. It also frequently occurs in one step ahead of the law, describing criminals able to evade capture or outfox authorities.

By the 1990–2000s, to be, stay, or keep one step ahead was widespread in workplace communication to characterize proactive planning and preparation (e.g., a one-step-ahead strategy for growth).

[homoe]

"How Do You Like Them Apples".......


A phrase used to draw attention to one's cleverness or superiority to the one being addressed, especially after a recent triumph.


Sidebar: There is a perfect example of this idiom being used in a scene from Good Will Hunting!

[Stone-Butch]

Love doesn't make the world go around. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones


A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Arnold Haultain

[homoe]

"Over A Barrel"...


In a position of vulnerability, weakness, or powerlessness.



Sidebar: Where did the expression come from? It is a nautical term, which derives from the practice of hanging a drowned, usually unconscious person over a barrel to clear their lungs of water. The fate of the "patient" was determined solely by the actions of those administering the treatment. In other words, he was at their mercy.

[Stone-Butch]

"put your hands in your pocket"-- is to be generous and to pay your part.

"hands down"-- easily and totally--hands down she is the best cook of them all

[homoe]

~~
"A Shot In The Dark"...........

A guess or estimate with very little or no assurance as to its accuracy. A wild, unsubstantiated guess.

[homoe]

"Knock (something) Out Of The Ballpark"...


To do or perform something extraordinarily well; to produce or earn an exceptional achievement.

[Stone-Butch]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

It is best to appreciate what you have than to seek more when you could lose all.

[homoe]

"Shoe Is On The Other Foot".......

Circumstances have changed or if circumstances were to change between two people.


Sidebar: This saying began life as the boot is on the other leg, appearing in print in the mid-nineteenth century. Putting the left shoe on the right foot would, of course, entail considerable discomfort, a meaning retained in the metaphor, which implies “See how you like being in my place.” Winston Churchill used it in My African Journal (1908)

[Stone-Butch]

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

When making a change save what matters to you and dispose of the rest.

[Stone-Butch]

"Love to be a fly on the wall."

Wanting to be within eye and earshot of a situation without being visible as to get informed without interfering or being obvious.

[homoe]

"Break the ice" "An Icebreaker".........


To break down a social stiffness in order for things to be more comfortable. This phrase is sometimes used when two people are meeting for the first time.

Sidebar: Some people may think that the phrase break the ice comes from steam-powered icebreaker ships that were designed in the 1800s. While traveling through ice-covered waters can be challenging, these ships were built to make navigation through the arctic regions of the world a bit easier.

So then, does the expression “break the ice” come from these types of ships? No, this is not the source of its origin because this phrase actually goes back to the 17th century, which means it precedes the creation of the icebreaker ships. For example, this expression makes an early appearance in a poem by Samuel Butler.

[homoe]

"A fly in the ointment".......

A minor irritation that spoils the success or enjoyment of something.

[Stone-Butch]

Quotes:

"Progress might have been alright once; but it's gone on too long."
Ogden Nash


"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity." Thor Heyerdahl