Nice turn of phrase you've heard

CPTM · 29-06-2019 6:08pm #1

Have you any clever/funny expressions you've heard along the way? I had an old manager who was full of them:

He's all hat and no cattle (nothing material behind his words)

If you turned sideways we'd mark you absent (you're skinny)

[Sighing,shaking head] It's not even about winning anymore, it's about what you lose by.

[About someone who has all the gossip] I tell you what, I bet you hear the grass grow. You hear everything!

I do have a heart you know, not just a swinging brick on a rope.

Any nice ones you've come across?

29-06-2019 6:11pm

"Humanity has been crossed."

trashcan · 29-06-2019 6:12pm

One of my favourites is "Don't p1ss on my leg and tell me it's raining."

branie2 · 29-06-2019 6:17pm

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

Speedsie · 29-06-2019 6:18pm

"I'm as dry as a Drake in a hay loft"

Translation, I'm parched.

_blaaz · 29-06-2019 6:19pm

You'd see more meat on a tinkers stick after a fight

Reference to a very thin person

Blazedup · 29-06-2019 6:20pm

trashcan wrote:

One of my favourites is "Don't p1ss on my leg and tell me it's raining."

Judge Judy

Cee-Jay-Cee · 29-06-2019 6:20pm

I’m so hungry I’d eat the bare arse of a nun through the convent gates.

Conall Cernach · 29-06-2019 7:02pm

He'd be in the crib at Christmas.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-06-2019 7:57pm

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

4ensic15 · 29-06-2019 9:12pm

I'd drink out of a tinker's knickers.

Gremlinertia · 29-06-2019 9:13pm

I'd eat the leg of the lamb of god

Plumbthedepths · 29-06-2019 9:16pm

It is better to have people think you are an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

corner of hells · 29-06-2019 9:24pm

I'm that hungry, I'd eat the arse of a low flying duck.

omerin · 29-06-2019 9:26pm

trashcan wrote: »

One of my favourites is "Don't p1ss on my leg and tell me it's raining."

Mainly heard when in the company of Sean O'Brien

BuboBubo · 29-06-2019 9:29pm

I'm so hungry I'd eat a horse between two breadvans.

If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle.

You'd use less petrol driving over him than driving around him.

He'd get up on a hairy rasher.

Archeron · 29-06-2019 9:29pm

I'm buying you a roundy bed so you can't get out the wrong side of it.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 29-06-2019 9:35pm

BuboBubo wrote: »

If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle.
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Not necessarily these days.

memorystick · 29-06-2019 9:36pm

An empty bag is a happy bag.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 29-06-2019 9:36pm

He’d turn up for the opening of an envelope.

(A politician or other worthy who goes to lots of events).

Purple Mountain · 29-06-2019 9:40pm

Not so much a phrase but a term.
'Hakiecock' - country word for a person (usually a woman) who has their nose in everyone's business.

Similar to an 'altar licker' - someone who is a holy Joe.