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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/28/2009 5:52:26 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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That's gonna hurt like the dickens
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I enjoy learning about these things too.
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sates a bad situation being helped along toward an even worse outcome.
Still doesn't make much sense to me. Whats so bad about a handbasket.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/29/2009 12:24:34 PM
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That's gonna hurt like the dickens
Looky loos
I enjoy learning about these things too.
Katie-Scarlet, may I introduce you to Google? Google, meet Katie-Scarlet.
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sates a bad situation being helped along toward an even worse outcome.
Still doesn't make much sense to me. Whats so bad about a hand basket.
Okay, one last time.
There is nothing bad about the hand basket, and the hand basket is not the bad situation.
The phrase references a bad situation that is being supported, by being placed in the metaphorical hand basket. Then the metaphorical hand basket is easily transported to Hell--the bad situation is reinforced and made more volatile.
Example:
My inability to explain the phrase "Going to Hell in a hand basket," has gone to Hell in a hand cart.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/30/2009 3:08:08 PM
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Roll with the punches
In boxing if someone hits you and you roll with it, can become resilient and can come back up fighting. Otherwise the punch knocks you over instead.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/31/2009 4:47:09 PM
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"I need your name, your mother's maiden name, date of birth, colour of the socks you are wearing, your address, and your first born,"
- incomprehensible phrase I hear when I call the bank, cable service provider, internet service provider etc. AND they don't even know that I am just calling to find out how late they are open!
WHY?[/
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 8/31/2009 4:54:20 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 . . . .
Yes unfortunately inflammable is sometimes misused...some think it means "not flammable" when in fact it means it can be in-flamed, hence inflammable. Thereforethe incorrect "flammable" is used more often to avoid confusion which could so easily result in a dangerous situation becoming even more dangerous.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/2/2009 9:39:20 AM
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Katie-Scarlet
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You don't fit the bill
Dog and pony show
Let the cat out of the bag
Straight from the horses mouth
A horse of a different color
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/4/2009 8:06:40 PM
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Break a leg.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/7/2009 12:43:26 AM
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Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/7/2009 12:51:30 AM
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My mother-in-law says a person is "wearing her feelings on her sleeve" (or his) when that person is easily offended by something that someone else has said in jest. (Just the act of brushing up against someone would "set her off", and in a crowd, brushing up against someone is unavoidable.) So, the person who wears her feelings on her sleeve would be in a perpetual state of irritation. and the least little thing would make her mad.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/7/2009 2:10:41 PM
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Three sheets to the wind.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/9/2009 8:28:53 AM
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Straighten up and fly right
Getting to first, second and thrid base
Your elevator doesn't go to the top floor
Two sandwiches short of a picnic
Your porch light is out
Your pulling my leg
Pull the wool over my eyes
More power to ya
Get a word in edgewise
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/9/2009 4:26:21 PM
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What sign are you? don't get this one, I tell people I don't do astrology and they repeat the question!! LOL I now say sign of the cross.
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/10/2009 9:15:17 AM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Oh my
Oh my goodness
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/17/2009 4:22:11 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Stinks to high heavens
Bun in the oven
Two shakes of a lambs tail (might of said this one before)
Monkey on my back
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/18/2009 9:42:27 AM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Fair and square
In a pickle
Hot to trot
Long legged sally
Its a breeze
Whats all the hulla baloo
Talk is cheap
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/18/2009 11:38:51 AM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Rat fink stoolie sp?
Make with the chin music unto he sings like a canary
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RE: Phrases you just don't get - 9/25/2009 1:38:00 PM
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Katie-Scarlet
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Holy cow!
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