Cat got your tongue?

[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.