Sayings, hyperbole, and expressions
There are sayings / phrases, hyperbole, and expressions that often make me scratch my head.
One example is when someone says that so and so has no balls or "grow a pair" when someone is either afraid of doing something or somehow indicates that the person is otherwise "acting in a girlish manner." Along the same lines, calling someone a pussy, indicating similar as the aforementioned. Now, let's break it down... balls are rather sensitive and simply getting grazed causes immense pain [for most... some are into that sort of thing]; vaginas [or "pussies" if you will] on the other hand take a hell of a beating through intercourse and of course, the potential result of said intercourse, giving birth and squeezing a baby out of it. So, why would someone think that a pussy is somehow inferior to testicles?
As happy as a clam is a relatively common saying; how do we know that clams are in fact happy? Happy as a pig in shit... pigs don't care what they're rolling in really... I think that happy as a pig in mud would be just as appropriate. Why wouldn't we say, as happy as an elephant in mud? Elephants cool themselves off in mud and it makes them appear happy.
As good as gold... there are other things far superior to gold in many standards. Was that the metal that was most precious when that phrase came about?
Boys will be boys. That one irritates me because not all are the same and the implications in that phrase give way to bad, negative, or poor behavior. It's allowing an excuse for being a lot of things and I can only think of negative things.
Easy as pie... not all pies are that easy to make; especially from scratch.
So, what are some sayings, phrases, hyperbole, and expressions that don't make much sense to you? This is all in fun.
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So, what are some sayings, phrases, hyperbole, and expressions that don't make much sense to you? This is all in fun.
**NO POLITICS**
Down here people say fixing. Like, I am fixing to go to the store...
That's a good one.
One my Aunt had that we use to laugh about...Hack around.
She would say, I am wearing my hack around clothes...
There's certainly unique phrases that come out from different parts of the country, aren't there?
In the upper Midwest, we call Coca Cola (for example) pop; in other parts of the country, it's soda. And there was one time in Tennessee that my mom and I asked for a Coke and the lady said, "What kind"? We didn't understand the question. She then said, "We have Sprite, cola, diet, and root beer." To her, they were all "Coke".
It is coke here. I have gone through a drive through and when asked what kind of drink I would say coke. Many times they would say, we only have Pepsi...Haha
Yeah, it's Coke or Pepsi here too, but those are two different types of pop here too.
Because in a patriarchal society, all things female are viewed as inferior.
Note that most pejoratives are based on either 'female' characteristics supposed 'female' acts.
I get that, but in reality a vagina is far tougher than testicles.
Yes and every grown man should know that but alas...
Well, it's like water off a duck's back. Just don't pee down my back.
Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
Plan your life like you'll live forever, but live your life like you will die the next day.
Even a fish could avoid trouble if it just kept its mouth shut...
Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge, wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
That never made sense to me. If the other guy is going to do it, then if you are him, you'd do it. It should be, you wouldn't do that if you were me.
That's an excellent one!
He who lives in glass house should always wear pants...
i can't see Y, oh wait, there it is , right after X girlfriends wear them
A man walks into a psychologists office wearing nothing but saran wrap and asks the doctor if there is something wrong with him.
The doctor replies, "Well, clearly I can see your nuts...".
Took me a while to get it.
i couldn't care less, about how people, say they could, cause if you Could care less, the greater value goes to the concern you are addressing, or undressing, with eyes buggin out of some elders cranium, where they look like they need to swallow a cricket, and put a sock on it, then place one on Jim, a knee, cause Jim a knees N joy's crickets sprinkled with Jimmies favorite topping, Jimmies, as Jimmy is one to sprinkle pepper spray while he is a salt ted, but he tries to get out of the way, of his phone, when it is charging, in his Dodge Ramming Jimmy with the Horn he hears whence impaled by a bunch of Bull Horns, that now adorn Jimmy and his indecision unabull to so if he decides to then flick a Bic, that has no match, to set a foot . on the moon, not a Saturn ring to wrestle his' conscience away from Matts' wiped before and during the wrestling match ring shaped like a box, that rings a bell, curved to pass the grade, where
i failed
"If wishes were horses beggars would ride"
My Grandmother
I think that I think, therefore, I think that I am.
Playing on Descartes' I think, therefore, I am.
what the hell were ya thinking...?
Go play in traffic.
nah, too busy
I like "irregardless"
well , i could care less , irregardless of what vic has to exclaim,
music to my ears
As they say in Brooklyn, "Ya, right!"