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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 9:35:03 PM
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Nick_Drake
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I think in the case of "pretty ugly", pretty means very, as in "that was pretty awful."
I bet foreigners learning the English language think that's pretty confusing, lol!
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 11:11:12 PM
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And if that isn't enough to fluster a person, I'm still trying to figure out why everybody's phone number on TV shows start with 555-. But I suppose that's another thread...
This one I know. It's an industry standard, so that no "real" numbers are said accidentally. There is no real "555".
I thought '555' was a New York City exchange.
That '80's song just wouldn't have been the same if they'd done it like the TV shows...
"five, five, five, five, three, 'o', ni-e-ine"
That song caused a real headache for phone companies. To this day that number is still a novelty.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/16/2009 11:13:07 PM
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I think in the case of "pretty ugly", pretty means very, as in "that was pretty awful."
I bet foreigners learning the English language think that's pretty confusing, lol!
A lot of the English language is confusing in general as some words have double meanings.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/17/2009 1:06:09 AM
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Was the phrase the whole nine yards given yet?
I don't think so, but it makes me think of 'the whole enchilada'. Are enchiladas really an appropriate food to express the entirety of something?
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The bottom line
More fun than a barrel of monkeys
Up the wazoo
How about 'butt load'? After many hours of careful consideration, and sleepless nights, I have come to the conclusion that it somehow morphed from the popular '90's phrase 'boat load'.
LOL thanks for a great laugh!
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/17/2009 8:18:22 AM
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I think in the case of "pretty ugly", pretty means very, as in "that was pretty awful."
I bet foreigners learning the English language think that's pretty confusing, lol!
Pretty much!
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/18/2009 11:35:12 AM
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I was watching Little House on the Prairie today and they referred to a heavy rainstorm as a Gollywasher. LOL haven't heard that one in a good long while!
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/18/2009 3:11:57 PM
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I was watching Little House on the Prairie today and they referred to a heavy rainstorm as a Gollywasher. LOL haven't heard that one in a good long while! Actually it is "gully washer" as in washing out the gullies.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/18/2009 9:32:48 PM
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I was watching Little House on the Prairie today and they referred to a heavy rainstorm as a Gollywasher. LOL haven't heard that one in a good long while! Actually it is "gully washer" as in washing out the gullies.
I lived in New Mexico for almost two years. The terrain, even in town, was marked by these peculiar gullies. And when it rained, it really rained, and they filled up fast, but emptied out quickly. The heavy rains really were like a flushing or cleansing of the landscape.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/21/2009 10:40:50 PM
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"Cleave unto your wife." What with -- a meat cleaver?
Intolerant means not tolerant, but inflammable means flammable and is sometimes used to mean not flammable.
I ran into another word like these yesterday, but this thread is about phrases . . . .
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/22/2009 5:13:56 PM
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I'm dead serious
Land sakes
Well la di da
Skeltons in the closet
A stitch in time saves nine
Wait a cotton picking minute
Yellow belly varment
By hook or crook
You old fuddy duddy
This is my swan song
Their a bunch of movers and shakers
Rule of thumb
Pass the buck (yes and my way please!)
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/23/2009 2:48:01 PM
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Dumb luck
You lucky stiff
How are you feeling? Ducky
How are you feeling? Peachy this side of keen.
What in the sam hill
Hoppin mad
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/23/2009 9:18:49 PM
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LOL, lots of southern phrases being mentioned now. I ain't surprised, half of what we say down here don't make a lick of sense (such as the phrase I just used). Yet no one ever questions why we say what we do.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/24/2009 10:55:26 AM
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Adrenalinejunkie
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That is a good question. One I do not have the answer to.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/24/2009 12:13:06 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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LOL, lots of southern phrases being mentioned now.
LOL Sorry I've been watching Little House on the Prarie for the past few weeks. I even caught myself saying the second one I posted just now to a coworker the other day. Darn that Mr. Edwards. LOL I think in America we are very colorful people language wise. We use phrases and metaphors more than anything.
Aw fiddle sticks
That's a biggin!
Hit the bricks
Taking a cat nap
Get out from under foot
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/24/2009 10:44:20 PM
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Here's one I don't get:
"That's not funny!"
It makes no sense because almost every single time it's said the person is laughing.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/25/2009 8:28:01 AM
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Tha'ts true! lol
Sit a spell. (how long is a spell)
Roll with the punches
Amount to a hill of beans
I haven't seen hide nor tail of it
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/25/2009 7:40:56 PM
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"Proof is in the Pudding" has been shortened from "The proof is in the taste of the pudding". If I remember right, its from Don Quixote. If you tell me that the pudding is good, then the proof is in pudding, isn't it?
"Best thing since sliced bread" is based on the fact that the bread-slicing machine made life a lot easier for housewives and a big advertising campaign by Wonder (I think) touted it as the greatest invention ever. So anything else was the greatest invention since...
"Rule of thumb" refers to a rough measure that experienced tradesmen use when they don't need to pull out a ruler. It DOES NOT refer to the width of stick a medieval man could use to beat his wife, as some feminists suggest. That has been debunked.
What I don't get is "Hell in a handbasket"...? How would you manage that? And what on earth is it trying to express?
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/26/2009 10:51:46 AM
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Hell in a handbasket reminded me of "Come hell or highwater"
And from our good friens the little rascals
Awww applesauce
Fiddlesticks
And Gone with the Wind
Fiddle dee dee
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/26/2009 1:18:31 PM
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What I don't get is "Hell in a hand basket"...? How would you manage that? And what on earth is it trying to express?
The correct phrase is "Going to Hell in a hand basket," or "Going to Hell in a hand cart." It describes a situation headed for disaster without much effort.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/26/2009 4:31:19 PM
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Think outside the box
circling the drain
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