"Refuse To Have A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Person".............




Often used to re-buff someone who wants to argue or fight about a certain topic you feel they have little to zero knowledge about.

Smokey The Bear (USFS)
 

Don't Play With Fire

It's a strongly worded phrase which people used to pay attention to. But ..... tonight..... over 10 thousand acres of centuries old Larch are nearly burned down....all of scenic Columbia River Gorge is on fire...it's so bad that Skamania lodge is in danger because the massive fires jumped the huge Columbia River. ......Eagle Creek is the scene of the ignition point....someone was playing with fire crackers. I don't know the full details, but it's like Mt St Helen's blew up. Skies are dark and filled with ash. Umpqua forest ....down by Crater Lake area....it's on fire and has spread as far as encroaching the Sisters and Bend area, I think. Breitenbush, upper Detroit lake area is evacuated..... Oregon has lost thousands and thousands of acres on forest's due to fires raging out of control over the past few days.

It's so incredibly sad tonight, for lots and lots of people.

Please.....Please: Don't Play With Fire.

.....Key.....

On its own, Key is usually thought to mean a key which has been tooled specifically to lock or unlock any door. Or Key could be used in terms of implying keys to operate and drive a car. Key is sometimes expressed as something of critical importance (i.e., key witness, key factors, key to the investigation, key concept, key components, key ideas, someone holds the key to your heart..... and so on).

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"Plenty Of Other Fish In The Sea"..............




Meaning there are many other people or possibilities, especially when one person or thing has been unsuitable or unsuccessful. This saying is often used to console a person who has lost a girlfriend or boyfriend.

"Loaded For Bear"..........................



Meaning fully prepared and eager to initiate or deal with a fight, confrontation, or trouble. Angry.

o O ....... never heard this expression before..... but I like it.

:hangloose:

"Don-t-knock-it-till-you've-tried-it"..............





Hold off judgement. Don't criticize something before having experienced it.

"Hold your cotton-pickin' horses...."

My grandmother said this often..... because certain members in our family had short tempers. :blush:

"Fly Off The Handle".......




React in a very angry way to something someone says or does. To lose one's temper.

"Blow a gasket....."

To be very upset over an very upsetting thing (issue)

I guess someone blows a gasket when they fly off the handle.......:giggle:

In some regions this is sometimes also refereed to as being a 'Wet Blanket'.

Y E S H......

:blush:

"Ruffle Feathers..........


Meaning to irritate or annoy someone.

"Ruffled My Feathers"............




Playfully and flirtatiously annoy someone to a point when (even though they're angry and aggravated) they hate to love you and can't get enough of you.

"Go For Broke"................



Meaning to wager everything.

"Sit Up And Take Notice"............




Meaning to become alert and pay attention. To suddenly give something or someone your full attention.

"Could of Knocked Me Off With A Feather"..............





An expression of great or utter surprise, bewilderment, or astonishment. You're so surprised by something that it wouldn't take much to knock you over/down!

"Skating On Thin Ice".;...........




If you're skating on thin ice, you're doing something risky, or you're in a situation that could quickly become dangerous.

"Hard To Swallow".............





Something that someone has said is hard to swallow if it's difficult to believe.

"Rings A Bell"........






If something rings a bell, it sounds familiar or you think you've heard it before.

"Eyes Like A Hawk"............





If someone has eyes like a hawk, they have very good eyesight and they notice everything.

"Cook Someone's Goose"........



Ruin someone, upset someone's plans.


Sidebar: The origin of this phrase has been lost, but there are numerous fanciful theories; one concerns a besieged town that displayed a goose to show it had enough food, causing the attackers to set it on fire.

They might of been a bit rougher and tougher where I grew up in the UP of Michigan!!

"A Tall Order"...........



If you say something's a tall order, you mean that it'll be hard to do or difficult to achieve.

"Verbal Diarrhea".........



If someone has verbal diarrhea, they can't stop talking.:|

"Full of vim and vigor".......





If you're full of vim and vigor, you have lots of energy and enthusiasm for life.

"Vote With Your Feet"...........




If you vote with your feet, you show your opinion of something by acting in a certain way, such as by buying something if you like it, or by not buying it if you don't like it.

"It's A Woman's Prerogative To Change Her Mind"..............



Self explanatory I would think!


Sidebar: Before a certain point in history, it was not a woman’s prerogative to change her mind, or to have much of any choice at all.

Eventually some social orders became enlightened enough to “allow” women some choice over their own lives, and it was so extraordinary a concept that it bore some explaining.

Thank you for this, homoe! While it does seem self explanatory, I do feel it's important to remember that women, for what's seems to be since time immemorial, have not been on equal footing in American society. *thanks truly, for your post* :rrose:

Tip of the Tongue

That phenomenon where you fail to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the imminent feeling that you will retrieve that word soon..... hence the saying, It's on the tip of my tongue.

"Firing On All Cylinders"..........




If you're firing on all cylinders, you're functioning as well as you possibly can.

"Doesn't have both oars in the water".............


Someone who isn't too bright! Crazy person.

"Play It By Ear"....................




To act according to the circumstances; improvise. To decide how to deal with a situation as it develops rather than planning how you are going to react.

Play it by ear

An novel ability for any person to play an favorite song on the piano, or any musical instrument, without any formal training or ability to do so.

Side notes: I'm formally trained as an person to play the piano, but I do have an aptitude for "playing it by ear" .... :balloon:

We hope you won't be cutting off your ear anytime soon Miss Katz....:giggle:

o 0 ( oh, wait maybe that was an artists who cut off their ear?)

:jester: :giggle:

You funny bunny you!!! LOL

"Full of Piss and Vinegar"..................



To have an abundance or excessive amount of boisterous, youthful energy, enthusiasm, or rowdiness!

YES, I'm afraid I'm full of piss and vinegar today....