Sayings that don't make sense.

TAlderson

Sort of similar to above, "she got ****ed five ways to Sunday."

-Tyler

Cookie_Monster

Eoin wrote: »

As in doing cartwheels I think?.

heels over head then surely?

Eoin

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

heels over head then surely?

Head over heels over head over heels over head if you do a few of them.

leggo

This thread owes a lot to Billy Connolly.

mauzo

Bees knees....?

mauzo

leggo wrote: »

This thread owes a lot to Billy Connolly.

Can't say I'm familiar with that one....

ruthloss

" 'cause thats the why" !!

My mother's way of answering the question 'why'

fred funk }{

number66 wrote: »

Give it the whole 9 yards.

Refers to a box of machine gun ammunition. The rounds were in lengths of 9 yards. So when someone said "give them the whole nine yards" they meant shoot the crap out of them.

demanufactured

Adin in it..
As in....he was asleep Adin in the bed...

Didn't I bate you......Adin in it.

fishy fishy

much of a muchness

the most irrational phrase ever.

(i know what it means, when people say it, but it does not make one bit of sense as a phrase).

Much of what? of a muchness of what?

fishy fishy

also this

Mam, can I go to the pictures

mam: "Ill give you pictures if I get near ya. :D

usually meant you were "in for it" (in trouble)

marcsignal

marcsignal wrote: »

'Revert Back'

It's used every day by people who are busting their arses trying to sound 'intellectual'.
It means absolutely nothing, and is bad grammar.

eg:

'We should revert back to the original position' = :rolleyes:

'We should revert to the original position' =

In short, the word 'Revert' means, to 'go back'

Sorry, had to get that off my chest, it drives me fcuking mad.

worse when they think it means "reply"
it's the opposite of convert, in no universe does it mean reply

endacl

They all make sense, if they've been correctly quoted. Thread should be re-titled 'sayings I don't understand. They must not make sense. Derp'...

fishy fishy

endacl wrote: »

They all make sense, if they've been correctly quoted. Thread should be re-titled 'sayings I don't understand. They must not make sense. Derp'...

are you saying that "much of a muchness" makes sense.
bearing in mind that "much" means "a lot of"

"a lot of" of an "a lot of'ness"

please explain

smash

endacl wrote: »

They all make sense, if they've been correctly quoted. Thread should be re-titled 'sayings I don't understand. They must not make sense. Derp'...

why shouldn't I be allowed eat my cake then?

Wibbs

number66 wrote: »

Give it the whole 9 yards.

fred funk }{ wrote: »

Refers to a box of machine gun ammunition. The rounds were in lengths of 9 yards. So when someone said "give them the whole nine yards" they meant shoot the crap out of them.

Not quite. The theory usually goes that in machine guns in WW1 that used belted ammunition, those belts were 9 yards long. Another idea was this was the length of the belts in WW2 fighter planes. All seems very plausible, the problem being that the length of said belts varied and none of them were 9 yards long. The real downer to the explanation is that the phrase didn't come into common use until the 1960s and IIRC only first appeared in print in the 50's. If this was a war time thang you'd expect to see it used then, not 20,30 even 40 years later. Basically it's one phrase that doesn't make sense, has no real explanation for it's origin, but everyone knows what it means. I'd reckon it was some author or others invented phrase(or one he heard from family or friends) and for some reason it caught on. The perfect meme.

Bad Panda

Expect the unexpected.

How can one expect something that's unexpected? If it's unexpected, you can't expect it!

"same difference" when they mean "same thing"

endacl

smash wrote: »

endacl wrote: »

They all make sense, if they've been correctly quoted. Thread should be re-titled 'sayings I don't understand. They must not make sense. Derp'...

why shouldn't I be allowed eat my cake then?

It's not a question of 'allowed' as such. More a baked-goods-based expression of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, although I'll accept this may only apply to a quantum of cake. The universal laws of physics just won't tolerate it I'm afraid. Even for carrot cake.

--Kaiser--

'The head on you and the price of turnips'

Anytime someone says this I ask them what it means, and they always say 'I dunno'......I can't understand using an expression that you yourself don't understand

--Kaiser--

SocSocPol wrote: »

The Dogs Bollox, could you think of a less well suited term to describe something that is really good?

According to QI, Meccano sets used to come in two different types, Box Deluxe and Box Standard, which is where the terms' Dogs Bollox' and 'Bog Standard' derive.

Personally I think it's a logical progression of the following phrases
The Bees Knees - The Mutts Nuts - The Dogs Bollox

Now, the etymology of 'Bees Knees' is even trickier....

endacl

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

SocSocPol wrote: »

The Dogs Bollox, could you think of a less well suited term to describe something that is really good?

According to QI, Meccano sets used to come in two different types, Box Deluxe and Box Standard, which is where the terms' Dogs Bollox' and 'Bog Standard' derive.

Personally I think it's a logical progression of the following phrases
The Bees Knees - The Mutts Nuts - The Dogs Bollox

Now, the etymology of 'Bees Knees' is even trickier....

Bees knees is an easy one. It where a honeybee carries the pollen grains it collects. The corbiculae,commonly known as 'baskets', I believe, and located at......

... the bee's knees.

--Kaiser--

Bad Panda wrote: »

Expect the unexpected.

How can one expect something that's unexpected? If it's unexpected, you can't expect it!

Not as illogical as you think. It's 'Expect the unexpected' not 'Expect the unexpectable'. Basically it means 'Expect plans to go belly-up'
(Oh no, I just explained a phrase with an even more esoteric one)

smash

endacl wrote: »

Bees knees is an easy one. It where a honeybee carries the pollen grains it collects. The corbiculae,commonly known as 'baskets', I believe, and located at......

... the bee's knees.

What about the cat's pyjamas?

crossvilla

'They use to be all the go' when talking about something that was popular years ago

--Kaiser--

endacl wrote: »

Bees knees is an easy one. It where a honeybee carries the pollen grains it collects. The corbiculae,commonly known as 'baskets', I believe, and located at......

... the bee's knees.

That's a dubious one, I think. It's not really common knowledge that bees knees are used for such a purpose
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-bees-knees.html

The one here seems to be the best explanation

There's no profound reason to relate bees and knees other than the jaunty-sounding rhyme. In the 1920s it was fashionable to use nonsense terms to denote excellence - 'the snake's hips', 'the kipper's knickers', 'the cat's pyjamas/whiskers', 'the monkey's eyebrows' and so on

endacl

smash wrote: »

endacl wrote: »

Bees knees is an easy one. It where a honeybee carries the pollen grains it collects. The corbiculae,commonly known as 'baskets', I believe, and located at......

... the bee's knees.

What about the cat's pyjamas?

Simple. Same as the elephant's instep.

ejmaztec

Has anyone ever tried, or even wanted to sh1t through the eye of a needle?

Medusa22

bluewolf wrote: »

"same difference" when they mean "same thing"

I become enraged when my mother uses that phrase so she uses it to annoy me.

Boombastic

ejmaztec wrote: »

Has anyone ever tried, or even wanted to sh1t through the eye of a needle?

Should there not be a camel somewhere in that phrase?


I'll brain you