Cat got your tongue?

C0LLETTE · 11-06-2020, 08:31 PM

Rub his nose in it...

What Biden should do to Trump....

Stone-Butch · 11-07-2020, 04:58 PM

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 · 11-07-2020, 05:03 PM

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 · 11-07-2020, 05:05 PM

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 · 11-10-2020, 06:03 PM

"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 · 11-11-2020, 12:55 PM

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 · 12-28-2020, 09:59 AM

"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.

11-06-2020, 08:31 PM	#1
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11-11-2020, 12:55 PM	#6
Stone-Butch Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Stonebutch Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: single Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Canada Posts: 3,697 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 13,336 Thanked 9,396 Times in 3,062 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	Cat got your tongue? 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.

11-10-2020, 06:03 PM	#5
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12-28-2020, 09:59 AM	#7
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