The Cliche Game Thread
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The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
To get something you want, you must attract attention or speak loudly.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Man thinks, God takes care of things.
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Do what you can and leave the rest for God to take care of.
The third degree.
To get something you want, you must attract attention or speak loudly.
Man proposes, God disposes.
Man thinks, God takes care of things.
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Do what you can and leave the rest for God to take care of.
The third degree.
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Re: All cats are gray in the dark
Actually, I think it's very similar to, "All women are pretty with the lights out," meaning visible differences aren't important.
The third degree
A harsh, often torturous questioning of a suspect.
Presumably the "third" degree because it comes after polite questions and serious, pointed questions without physical confrontation.
"The girls all get prettier at closing time."
Mensa said:
Actually, I think it's very similar to, "All women are pretty with the lights out," meaning visible differences aren't important.
The third degree
A harsh, often torturous questioning of a suspect.
Presumably the "third" degree because it comes after polite questions and serious, pointed questions without physical confrontation.
"The girls all get prettier at closing time."
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Mistress said:
That's not really a cliche, but an archaic way of saying "get angry"
How about Coyote Ugly?
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That would be a woman (or a man, if your female or gay) so ugly, that when you awoke to find them asleep on your arm, you would chew your arm off before trying to slip it from under her and risk waking her
Which of course reminds be of "A two bagger"
Which of course reminds be of "A two bagger"
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**Laughing** Your right, Cymbidia, but there is another use for "Two Bagger" that goes along with Coyote Ugly.
A two bagger is someone so ugly you put a bag over your head incase the bag over theirs accidently burst.
Small Potatoes- Growing up with a family garden, when its time to dig the potatoes up, a lot of the time, the real small potatoes just get left behind. So when something is small potatoes, its a small thing, not worth worring about.
In the short rows now.
A two bagger is someone so ugly you put a bag over your head incase the bag over theirs accidently burst.
Small Potatoes- Growing up with a family garden, when its time to dig the potatoes up, a lot of the time, the real small potatoes just get left behind. So when something is small potatoes, its a small thing, not worth worring about.
In the short rows now.
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In the short rows now
I'm not at all familiar with that particular cliche. Is is perhaps similar to "down to the short strokes" meaning the problem has essentially been solved and that only minor details are left to deal with?
Slow as molasses.
I'm not at all familiar with that particular cliche. Is is perhaps similar to "down to the short strokes" meaning the problem has essentially been solved and that only minor details are left to deal with?
Slow as molasses.
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Re: In the short rows now
Back to Roll-One's quote:
Hornier than a two peckered Billy Goat
Essentially the same, Mensa. If come from farming. Here in Kentucky where lots of farms arn't all flat land, you end up with irregular shapped fields. When the work is almost done, be it weeding or harvesting, when you get to the "short rows", the one on the outside, you know your almost finished.Mensa said:
Back to Roll-One's quote:
Hornier than a two peckered Billy Goat
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Hornier than a two peckered Billy Goat
This would be very horny, indeed, would it not?
(Two peckers... hmmm... now doesn't THAT bring up some interesting images of... well... better not go there. We're talking a billy goat here, after all. Now, were we talking a man...well well well. Might throw a scare into all those dildo manufacturers and make a few dbl penetration dreams come happily true. But, we're not going there, hmmm?)
Okay.
Well.
Another cliche...
Hmmm.
~g~
When pigs fly
This would be very horny, indeed, would it not?
(Two peckers... hmmm... now doesn't THAT bring up some interesting images of... well... better not go there. We're talking a billy goat here, after all. Now, were we talking a man...well well well. Might throw a scare into all those dildo manufacturers and make a few dbl penetration dreams come happily true. But, we're not going there, hmmm?)
Okay.
Well.
Another cliche...
Hmmm.
~g~
When pigs fly
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Better poor and honest.
Not willing to sacrifice principles to get ahead.
"In over your head"
Not willing to sacrifice principles to get ahead.
"In over your head"
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slow as molassas
very, very slow. Comes from the harvesting of maple syrup or molassas from trees. Done in the winter when the syrup runs very, very slowly. Also refers to the way it pours from the bottle, thick and slow.
smooth as Silk
very, very slow. Comes from the harvesting of maple syrup or molassas from trees. Done in the winter when the syrup runs very, very slowly. Also refers to the way it pours from the bottle, thick and slow.
smooth as Silk
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Smooth as Silk
Silk is an ultra luxurious fabric, known for its fineness since antiquity. Something that is as "smooth as silk" has the characteristic of possessing no snags, nothing that would stop or slow a person engaged in an operation that is defined in that manner.
A soft touch
Silk is an ultra luxurious fabric, known for its fineness since antiquity. Something that is as "smooth as silk" has the characteristic of possessing no snags, nothing that would stop or slow a person engaged in an operation that is defined in that manner.
A soft touch
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cymbidia said:
An "easy mark" someone who will do almost anything asked of them.
A brit cliche: Knock me Up in the morning
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Dead as a doornail
Interesting. I knew what this meant, of course. We all do. It indicates something that is not working or is entirely unresponsive.
However, i wondered if there was more history to this cliche, something more flavorful in it's background. There is. Here's a long explanation of this cliche:
http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-dea1.htm
This is an ancient expression: we have a reference to this dating back to 1350, and it also appears in Shakespeare's Henry IV. Another expression, of rather later date, is as dead as a herring, because most people only saw herrings when they were long dead and preserved; there are other similes with the same meaning, such as dead as mutton, or dead as a stone.
But why particularly a doornail, rather than just any old nail? Could it be because of the repetition of sounds, and the much better rhythm of the phrase compared with the version without door? Almost certainly the euphony has caused the phrase to survive longer than the alternatives I've quoted. But could there something special about a doornail?
The usual reason given is that a doornail was one of the heavy studded nails on the outside of a medieval door, or possibly that the phrase refers to the particularly big one on which the knocker rested. A doornail, because of its size and probable antiquity, would seem dead enough for any proverb; the one on which the knocker sat might be thought particularly dead because of the number of times it had been knocked on the head.
But William and Mary Morris, in The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, quote a correspondent who points out that it could come from a standard term in carpentry. If you hammer a nail through a piece of timber and then flatten the end over on the inside so it can't be removed again (a technique called clinching), the nail is said to be dead, because you can't use it again. Doornails would very probably have been subjected to this treatment to give extra strength in the years before screws were available. So they were dead because they'd been clinched. It sounds plausible, but whether it's right or not we will probably never know.
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Interesting. I knew what this meant, of course. We all do. It indicates something that is not working or is entirely unresponsive.
However, i wondered if there was more history to this cliche, something more flavorful in it's background. There is. Here's a long explanation of this cliche:
http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-dea1.htm
This is an ancient expression: we have a reference to this dating back to 1350, and it also appears in Shakespeare's Henry IV. Another expression, of rather later date, is as dead as a herring, because most people only saw herrings when they were long dead and preserved; there are other similes with the same meaning, such as dead as mutton, or dead as a stone.
But why particularly a doornail, rather than just any old nail? Could it be because of the repetition of sounds, and the much better rhythm of the phrase compared with the version without door? Almost certainly the euphony has caused the phrase to survive longer than the alternatives I've quoted. But could there something special about a doornail?
The usual reason given is that a doornail was one of the heavy studded nails on the outside of a medieval door, or possibly that the phrase refers to the particularly big one on which the knocker rested. A doornail, because of its size and probable antiquity, would seem dead enough for any proverb; the one on which the knocker sat might be thought particularly dead because of the number of times it had been knocked on the head.
But William and Mary Morris, in The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, quote a correspondent who points out that it could come from a standard term in carpentry. If you hammer a nail through a piece of timber and then flatten the end over on the inside so it can't be removed again (a technique called clinching), the nail is said to be dead, because you can't use it again. Doornails would very probably have been subjected to this treatment to give extra strength in the years before screws were available. So they were dead because they'd been clinched. It sounds plausible, but whether it's right or not we will probably never know.
happy camper
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As you know, goats eat anything and their insides are considered 'black' because of it.
It's a southern term meaning someone is ill, sick or confused.
I believe the rules state that cymbidia is next as bat even if she didn't know what it meant.
It's a southern term meaning someone is ill, sick or confused.
I believe the rules state that cymbidia is next as bat even if she didn't know what it meant.
