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01-10-2007, 12:56 PM
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As its raining Cats and Dogs at the moment ..there are lots more
Idioms out there here are a few i can remember...how about you
1. Blind as a Bat
2. As cool as a cucumber
3. White as Snow
4. Hards as Nails
5. All bark and no bite
6. All fingers and thumbs
7. Two peas in a pod
8. All hell broke loose
Julie
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01-10-2007, 01:00 PM
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How about -
Rack & Ruin
Sandwich short of a picnic
Up a gum tree
Back to square one
Can of worms 
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01-10-2007, 01:09 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The sunny West Midlands.
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About as useful as a catflap on a submarine. |
01-10-2007, 01:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kshotton45  About as useful as a catflap on a submarine. | Excellent............best one I've heard in a long time 
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01-10-2007, 02:07 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Letchworth Garden City
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chiffchaff How about -
Up a gum tree | A previous boss of mine once described a colleague as being "up a gum tree without a paddle" - the image has stayed with me ever since |
01-10-2007, 02:12 PM
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Can you put the origins of the phrases along side, if you know them, just for interest.
Fed up - Used in Falconry, if the birds are given to much food in training they won’t respond because there fed up.
BWD
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sdrawkcab backwards is backwards |
01-10-2007, 02:53 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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As sure as eggs is eggs  |
01-10-2007, 03:07 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Derbyshire
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A change is as good as a rest!!
jen xxx |
01-10-2007, 03:29 PM
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When we came in all dirty from playing in the street my mum would say...My God, your as black as the hobs of hell! |
01-10-2007, 03:41 PM
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I love this type of thing
Knee high to a Grass Hopper
Every Ass loves to hear himself bray
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king
Many a Mickle makes a muckle |
01-10-2007, 04:31 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The sunny West Midlands.
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If brains were made of dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his hat off.
Keith. |
01-10-2007, 04:43 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lincolnshire/Cambs/Norfolk border right on The Wash
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About as much good as a chocolate fireguard!!
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01-10-2007, 04:56 PM
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surely the very best one has to be.....
Behand every great man there's a great woman!!!
jen xxx |
01-10-2007, 05:05 PM
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Here's a couple i use at work all the time...
Just can't get the staff 
Womans work is never done
Boys will be boys
No rest for the wicked
jen xxx |
01-10-2007, 07:21 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: New Milton, Hampshire
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Piece of cake
A walk in the park |
01-10-2007, 09:41 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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dont get your wool out well i go to the top of my stairs like tits on a wheelbarrow enough to make a saint swea
well i go to hell and back dont cry over spilt milk |
01-10-2007, 09:42 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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Quote:
Originally Posted by naturelover dont get your wool out well i go to the top of my stairs like tits on a wheelbarrow enough to make a saint swea
well i go to hell and back dont cry over spilt milk | sorry i didnt put commers in. |
02-10-2007, 05:26 AM
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One for when you were kids...Finders keepers, losers weepers.
One for when your older...If you can't be good be careful.
jen xxx
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02-10-2007, 05:39 AM
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise! (yeah right!!  )
jen xxx |
02-10-2007, 08:38 AM
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Ooh i could crush a grape..
As thick as two short planks..
Its all water under the bridge..
Never bite the hand that feeds you..
Julie
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02-10-2007, 09:41 AM
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Cut off your nose to spite your face...
Let the cat out of the bag..
Buy a pig in a poke...
[These two linked, relate to the practice of buying livestock without seeing it and finding you didn't get what you paid for] |
02-10-2007, 10:56 AM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: The sunny West Midlands.
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As much use as a handbrake on a canoe .
Keith |
02-10-2007, 11:01 AM
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If we sat lazing about my old Mum used to say "Yer sat there like corn growing in Egypt"
Her only expletive was "Crikey Moses".
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02-10-2007, 11:36 AM
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There's more than one way to skin a cat .... WHY?
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Ipso Facto
... by it's very nature ... |
02-10-2007, 01:04 PM
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A watched pot never boils.
Great minds think alike.
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