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Sayings that don't make sense.

  • 27-08-2012 09:13PM
    #1
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Just read a saying in the stingy thread, the person 'Wouldn't spend Christmas'. :confused:

    What does that mean, wouldn't spend Christmas?


    I'm sure there are more.


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  • #2
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,275 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    "Shut your mouth and eat your dinner"


  • #3
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    You never see an old man eating a twix.


  • #4
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    A stitch in time saves nine.


  • #5
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,397 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Spend. As in spending time. It's funny cause you don't have to explain it. Ah crap.


  • #6
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


    Garda Intelligence:D


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  • #7
    Chips Ahoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 225 ✭✭Chips Ahoy


    Why? That's the why!?
    usually said by an angry mother


  • #8
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    lazygal wrote: »
    Just read a saying in the stingy thread, the person 'Wouldn't spend Christmas'. :confused:

    What does that mean, wouldn't spend Christmas?


    I'm sure there are more.

    That even at Christmas time they wouldn't spend money.
    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    A stitch in time saves nine.

    If you spot an item of clotting that needs a stitch in time you'll save yourself having to make a few more when it unravels further.


    Eh this is kinda self explanatory stuff folks...


  • #9
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    That fella wouldnt give you the steam off his piss.


    Why would you want someone elses piss steam?:confused:


  • #10
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    I'd ate the back feet off a low flying duck.


  • #11
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    If he was alive today, he'd roll in his grave


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  • #12
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    "Might aswell be hung for a sheep as a lamb." I don't get it :p


  • #13
    SocSocPol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭SocSocPol


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


  • #14
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    "He who laughs last should get his hearing checked before the road rises up to meet him."

    You're drunk Granddad, feck off home ya auld sauce-hound.


  • #15
    TAlderson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭TAlderson


    "More [something] than you can shake a stick at." Who the hell is shaking sticks at things, and why are they too lazy to do it once they reach a certain number?

    -Tyler


  • #16
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    The term one trick pony, it's usually used in a very negative way yet I've never seen a single pony that can do even one trick let alone many and believe me I've looked. A pony that could do tricks (even a simple roll over or something like that) would actually be pretty cool and somewhat unique. Now a one trick magician, that would be pretty lame.


  • #17
    Boombastic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,496 ✭✭✭Boombastic


    If you fall and break your legs, don't come running to me


  • #18
    garv123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,579 ✭✭✭garv123


    You can't have your cake and eat it.

    If I get a cake of course I'm going to fecking eat it.


  • #19
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,798 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    "Might aswell be hung for a sheep as a lamb." I don't get it :p

    It should probably be hanged rather than hung.

    http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I+might+as+well+be+hung+for+a+sheep+as+a+lamb


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Vote Fianna Fail


  • #21
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    garv123 wrote: »
    You can't have your cake and eat it.

    If I get a cake of course I'm going to fecking eat it.

    I know this one :D It means you can't have a cake, then eat it and then expect to still have it. You can't have it both ways basically.
    I think :p


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  • #22
    MHalberstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 203 ✭✭MHalberstram


    Unguaranteed bondholders will be repaid in full.


  • #23
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    It should probably be hanged rather than hung.

    http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/I+might+as+well+be+hung+for+a+sheep+as+a+lamb

    ohhh thanks :D


  • #24
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    The exception that proves the rule. How can an exception prove a rule? It should disprove it.


  • #25
    Rayne Wooney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón


  • #26
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    '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.


  • #27
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,798 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    The term one trick pony, it's usually used in a very negative way yet I've never seen a single pony that can do even one trick let alone many and believe me I've looked. A pony that could do tricks (even a simple roll over or something like that) would actually be pretty cool and somewhat unique. Now a one trick magician, that would be pretty lame.

    The story goes that around the mid-1800s there was one particularly disasterous show by The Cuffling Cousins Circus. It is said that they had an appallingly dull act involving a pony that knew no tricks apart from “playing dead”, and that this led the disappointed audience to uproar, demanding their money back. Suffice it to say this one-trick-pony did not entertain and certainly did not impress! Much like one-trick-ponies that we refer to today.


  • #28
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    My name is URL wrote: »
    If he was alive today, he'd roll in his grave

    This is two sayings stuck together, but I really like the Muppet like imagery I'm getting of some ghost of Christmas past type corpse hurricaning about the place in dismay.


  • #29
    Lustrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Lustrum


    The head on him and the price of cabbage!


  • #30
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    There'll be wigs on the green I tell ya.


    WTF :confused:


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  • #31
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,833 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    So's your face


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